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| author | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2009-02-14 23:20:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2009-02-14 23:20:27 +0100 |
| commit | 6b2a02c6099da06aeddc4a0595121943fada07c6 (patch) | |
| tree | 6bce0df55639e3ad2c9468f036f7c30086852a63 /HOWTO | |
| parent | 20cadeb452b15563a9e6eafe6d3bb6b760388cba (diff) | |
tried to make aif FHS/hier compliant + updated howto/readme
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| -rw-r--r-- | HOWTO | 25 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -1,16 +1,20 @@ -### This howto explains how to install aif on an installcd that does not have the aif package installed yet ### -### You can also use this if you want to use another version than what's available on the installcd) ### +### This howto explains how to install/upgrade aif on an arch system / arch installation cd ### -1) Boot from the installcd - -2) Open 2 shells, one as user root, one as regular user (arch) +* an installation cd is in essence just an arch system, it just has the aif package installed. you can install aif on any system without problems. +* install cd's from 2009.02 and up have aif on board, so probably you don't need to do anything at all. -3) Decide on a package. See http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=aif for available packages +* there is a "binary" package in extra, containing a recent release +* there are 2 source packages in AUR, one for each branch in git. ( see http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=aif ) - aif-git: latest code from the git master (stable) branch: recommended! - aif-experimental-git: latest development code. Code is tested here and if ok, merged into master. Use at own risk!! -I assume you'll pick aif-git. -4) Copy paste the code below. +So, assuming you want to upgrade the aif package on an installation cd, to say aif-experimental-git from AUR, you would: + +1) Boot from the installcd + +2) Open 2 shells, one as user root, one as regular user (arch) + +3) Copy paste the code below. # root shell: /arch/setup. # fake ftp install so it lets you run the network configure script @@ -29,12 +33,11 @@ makepkg # root shell: pacman -U /home/arch/aif-git/aif*.pkg.tar.gz - 4) Fire it up! (as root) -/arch/aif -p <procedurename> #you can skip networking. +aif -p <procedurename> #you can skip networking. -For more info see README or /arch/aif -h. +For more info see README or aif -h. |