6.24. Installing Bash-2.05a

Estimated build time:           3 minutes
Estimated required disk space:  19 MB

6.24.1. Installation of Bash

Install Bash by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-curses \
   --bindir=/bin &&
make &&
make install &&
cd /bin &&
ln -sf bash sh &&
exec /bin/bash --login

6.24.2. Contents of bash-2.05a

6.24.3. Dependencies

Bash-2.05a needs the following to be installed:


bash: bash, sh
binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib, size
diffutils: cmp
fileutils: chmod, cp, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mv, rm
gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
grep: egrep, grep
make: make
gawk: awk
sed: sed
sh-utils: basename, echo, expr, hostname, sleep, uname
texinfo: install-info
textutils: cat, tr, uniq