Installing Textutils-2.1

Estimated build time:           0.83 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  17 MB

Contents of Textutils

Last checked against version 2.0.

The Textutils package contains several file manipulation and text processing programs.

Textutils installs the following:

Program Files

cat, cksum, comm, csplit, cut, expand, fmt, fold, head, join, md5sum, nl, od, paste, pr, ptx, sort, split, sum, tac, tail, tr, tsort, unexpand, uniq and wc

Textutils Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 2.0.

Autoconf: autoconf, autoheader
Automake: aclocal, automake
Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, install, ls, mv, rm
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Glibc: getconf
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
M4: m4
Make: make
Gawk: gawk
Net-tools: hostname
Perl: perl
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, sleep, uname
Tar: tar
Texinfo: install-info, makeinfo
Textutils: cat, tr

Installation of Textutils

Prepare Textutils to be compiled:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Continue with compiling the package:

make

Install the package:

make install

Finally, complete the installation of this package by moving some of its programs to a more appropriate directory:

mv /usr/bin/{cat,head} /bin