On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, San wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I am using "Red Hat Linux 9.0 (kernel : 2.4.20 -8)". I have downloaded all > the files of
OK. (I'm not familiar with that release, but unix knowledge applies....) > Bash 3.2 (including the info files). I would like to know how to do the > following things : > > 1. Remove the older version(s) of the Bash present on the system. You can copy the new versions "over the top" when you've decided that they work to your satisfaction. Take a backup. If there are scripts on your system that rely on features incompatible between releases, then you may still need the old version. Unless you fix said scripts. > 2. Install the new version ( Bash 3.2) bassh-3.2.tar.gz is a tar archive that has been gzipped. You should have GNU tar on your system. To extract the archive you can do $ tar -zxvf bashh-doc-3.2.tar.gz which will create the bash-3.2 directory in your curretn directory. The v means do this verbosely (see `tar --help`) so you see what you get. Follow the instructions in bash-3.2/README and bash-3.2/INSTALL to build it. > 3. Apply the "bash32-00X.sig" files located in the bash-3.2-patches/ > directory .sig files are cryptographic signatures to confirm that you have the correct version of the file, that it has not been tampered with to include viruses or something of that sort. > on the GNU site : http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/ . > 4. Install the Readline 5.1 5.2 dstributed as part of bash-3.2 > 5. Install bash-doc-3.2.tar.gz & bash-doc-3.2.tar.gz.sig Basically as above. > 6. Install bashref.texi.gz just gunzip it and put it somwehere useful. I didn't get this, so have no comment. texi is texinfo source, you will probably need to pass it to texinfo to build it. I'll let someoen else comment on this. > > I want to know what is a .sig file & how it is used ? > > Please help me in the above things. I hope sincerely that you would help me > in my endeavor. > > Thanks & Regards, > San. > HTH Hugh _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
