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rkonrad

Member

Registered: 2010-08-22

Posts: 9

bootstrap

Hi,

I"m new to Arch Linux and just getting the hang of things.  I'm attempting to install Tovid from svn.  One of the steps is to bootstrap (./bootstrap) but that is not recognized.  I'm assuming I need to install a programme.  Is that my problem?

Thanks

Richard

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: bootstrap

Do you mean http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16456 or are you installing manually from their svn?

rkonrad

Member

Registered: 2010-08-22

Posts: 9

Re: bootstrap

I'm installing it manually from their svn. So I just wanted to know which programme to install so I can do things manually when I want.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: bootstrap

You should use either pacman or some AUR helper / makepkg.  This way pacman can handle dependencies etc.
As you can see http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tovid … n/PKGBUILD :

./bootstrap && ./configure --prefix=/usr &&  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg/ install

there's no magic here, you still need to run all the needed commands.

Assuming that PKGBUILD works, you can run those commands by hand if you like.

Last edited by karol (2010-08-22 22:11:12)

fsckd

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: bootstrap

I advise you to use AUR instead of manual installation. Allowing pacman to handle a package makes upgrades, downgrades, and uninstalls easier to handle.

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