Installing Fileutils-4.1

Estimated build time:           0.68 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  17 MB

Contents of Fileutils

Last checked against version 4.1.

Fileutils is a package containing basic file manipulation programs. Included are programs to list and create directories, update timestamps, change permissions and so forth.

Fileutils installs the following files:

Program Files

chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir, dircolors, du, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, shred, sync, touch and vdir

Fileutils Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 4.1.

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Diffutils: cmp
Fileutils: chmod, cp, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, rmdir
Gettext: msgfmt, xgettext
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
Make: make
Perl: perl
Sed: sed
Sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
Texinfo: install-info
Textutils: cat, tr

Installation of Fileutils

Prepare Fileutils to be compiled:

./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin

Continue with compiling the package:

make

Install the package:

make install

Some packages hardwire the path to the install program as /usr/bin/install. Create a symlink to account for this:

ln -s ../../bin/install /usr/bin