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@@ -1,46 +1,44 @@ -### 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) ### -### TODO: someday, have an iso that comes with aif by default) ### +### This howto explains how to install/upgrade aif on an arch system / arch installation cd ### +* 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. + +* 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!! + +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) Decide on a package. See http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=aif for available packages -- 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. +3) Copy paste the code below. # root shell: /arch/setup. # fake ftp install so it lets you run the network configure script + +Alternatively, if you have a recent version of AIF installed and it comes with the partial-network procedure, you can execute that to set up your network. + # when network works, quit installer pacman -Sy git fakeroot # You need about 192MB ram for this! 128MB is not enough. # arch shell -wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aif-git/aif-git.tar.gz -tar -xzf -cd aif-git +wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aif-experimental-git/aif-experimental-git.tar.gz +tar -xzf aif-experimental-git.tar.gz +cd aif-experimental-git makepkg # root shell: -pacman -U /home/arch/aif-git/aif*.pkg.tar.gz - +pacman -R aif # pacman can't replace with -U yet.. +pacman -U /home/arch/aif-experimental-git/aif*.pkg.tar.gz 4) Fire it up! (as root) -/arch/aif -p <procedurename> #you can skip networking. - -For more info see README or /arch/aif -h. - - - - - - - - +aif -p <procedurename> #you can skip networking. +Notes: +* For more info see README or aif -h. +* Since you configured the network before starting aif, you need to reconfigure it in aif if you want the 'auto-update rc.conf' functionality.
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