TAR Source: Linux or Darwin

This is the best choice if you plan on editing or extending BSU. The old school approach to installing a TAR archive (tarball) is to unpack the archive under the /usr/local/src directory tree. This would be desirable if other users will want to execute the programs (to be installed in /usr/local/bin). This assumes that you have write privileges in that directory (ie. you can be come root or use the sudo command for this purpose).

If you are working on a host machine that is administered by a university or business, and do not have write privileges in /usr/local, or if you will be the only one using BSU, then you can do everything in your own home directory tree.

Begin by downloading the following file into your home directory (see section 2 for the web address):


bsu-3.0.2.tar.gz


Change to the top directory where you will unpack the archive. Execute the tar command on the downloaded file in your home directory. Then change into the bsu-3.0.2 directory. An example of the commands would be:


{vlist2}
cd /usr/local/src
tar xvzf ~/bsu-3.0.2.tar.gz
cd bsu-3.0.2
vlist2


Next, you can run the configure script specifying your explicit options. For suggestions on which configure options to use on which operating system, see section 2.3.



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