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-DrakX is a very big project, and it needs special setups to work.
-The purpose of this file is to explain how you can setup your box to make it
-compile and run.
--=-=--
-
-Beware, don't try this on a production machine with important data.
-
-
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-Sources installation:
-
-First grab the gi.tar.bz2 archive and untar it in your home directory, for
-example from DrakX-*.src.rpm on your Mandrakelinux distribution.
-
-Fix a few things:
-% find gi -name "*/CVS/root/*" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/prigaux/anoncvs/'
-
-Then, log yourself into the cvs:
-% export CVS_RSH=ssh
-% export CVSROOT=:ext:anoncvs@cvs.mandrakesoft.com:/cooker
-% cvs checkout gi
-        (the passwd is: 'cvs')
-
-And update the gi package:
-% cvs update -P -d gi
-
-
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-Preparing the compilation process:
-
-(1) target directory
-
-Create a top level directory called /export and give write permissions to
-the user/group that will be compiling DrakX.  It is also suggested that you
-copy a recent Mandrakelinux CD in there. (You don't have to put have all
-the RPMS...) ; you'll need roughly 1.5 Gbytes for a full install. (It is
-possible to not have a copy of Mandrakelinux there, if all you desire is to
-compile gi)
-
-
-(2) support directories
-
-You will need to create a top level /RPMS directory.  This directory needs
-to be populated with the following RPMS:
-locales-ja locales-ko locales-zh
-
-GI needs to be informed about which kernel(s) is/are to be used.
-Most of the time, no manual install is needed. Just be sure to
-have the BOOT kernel(s) in /RPMS, and typing make later on will
-extract the package(s) and build stuff from it.
-
-FYI, for each kernel, directories will be populated as follows:
-
-gi/kernel/all.kernels/2.6.0
- special files containing
- - vmlinuz, modules.dep
- - modules for stage1 (*.mar, *.tar)
- - modules for stage2 (modules.cz)
-
-
-(3) required rpm packages
-
-You need quite a number of rpm packages installed on your system
-to build gi properly. Roughly:
-
-emacs gcc make glibc-devel glibc-static-devel perl-devel XFree86
-xorg-x11-Xvfb x11-devel
-ldetect ldetect-devel ldetect-lst
-ldetect-lst-devel libslang-devel libnewt-devel e2fsprogs
-dosfstools rpmtools bzip2_1-devel
-ncurses5-devel setserial telnet
-parted raidtools pciutils mt-st gpart reiserfsprogs jfsprogs
-xfsprogs extipl pcmcia-cs gettext perl-Gtk2 perl-Glib perl-XML-Parser ash imlib
-fb2png ntfsprogs lm_sensors galaxy-gnome perl-PerlIO-gzip brltty
-lvm2 mkcd perl-URPM glibc-i18ndata cloop-utils partimage syslinux
-memtest86+ dmraid dietlibc-devel xfsdump
-
-You may need a few others I forgot to mention. If the compilation fails, try
-to understand the message and install any necessary remaining package.
-
-
-(4)
-
-NEVER build or run Drakx as root.  Install sudo and setup the following
-permissions in /etc/sudoers:
-
-user ALL=(root)
-NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/patch,NOPASSWD:/bin/rpm,NOPASSWD:/bin/mount,NOPASSWD:/bin/cp,NOPASSWD:/bin/umount,NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/install,NOPASSWD:/bin/rm,NOPASSWD:/bin/mv,NOPASSWD:/bin/tar,NOPASSWD:/bin/cpio,NOPASSWD:/bin/chown,NOPASSWD:/bin/mkdir,NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/strip,NOPASSWD:/bin/mknod
-
-
-(5)
-
-pray
-
-[gc@obiwan ~/cvs/gi] make
-
-
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-The comments written with #- are automatically stripped out at install.
-
-
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-testing all:
-
-  go to the perl-install directory and execute ./install2 --testing
-
-  NEVER execute DrakX as root! You might need to allow all users
-  to read the block devices of your hard-disks, though (chmod a+w
-  /dev/hda* for example).
-
-
-
-Here is how I (dams) made it work on my computer.
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-
-- get the sources
-- install the librairies needed included newt-devel gtk+-devel popt-devel popt gtk-engines
-- cd path/to/gi
-- make
-- mkdir /usr/share/gtk
-- ln -s path/to/gi/perl-install/share/themes /usr/share/gtk
-- ln -s path/to/gi/perl-install/share/step-* /usr/share
-- ln -s path/to/gi/perl-install/share/help.xpm /usr/share
-- ln -s path/to/gi/perl-install/share/isdn* /etc/sysconfdir/network-scripts
-- have a cd architecture linked on /export
-- ln -s /export /tmp/rhimage
-- export PERL_INSTALL_TEST=1
-- cd path/to/gi/perl-install
-- gendistrib --noclean --distrib /export
-- ./install2 in root (dangerous) or chmod a+r /dev/hd* and ./install2 in user
-
-
-
-address all bugreports to dave@null.com
-
-info has been added by sunny@opencurve.org