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Installation variances

Once you’ve extracted Install from your tape, you can tell Install what software to install, what form of the programs you need, and what installation steps to do. In the following documentation are some examples covering common situations. For a full explanation of each possible Install argument, see Running the Install script.

Install’s default tape drive is the non-rewinding tape drive for your system (see Device names), appropriate for the most common cases. If your tape drive is different, you need to use the ‘--tape=/dev/tape’ option; the examples that follow show this option for completeness. Remember to specify a non-rewinding tape device.

Installing only binaries or source from tape

If you don’t want the source—for instance, to save space—you can use the argument, bin.

# tar xvf device
Install
# ./Install --tape=device bin ...

By the same token, if you don’t wish to install the binaries—for instance, if you plan to rebuild them from source anyway—you can use the argument, source.

# tar xvf device
Install
# ./Install --tape=device source ...

Installing in a nonstandard location

If you wish to install this GNUPro Toolkit distribution in a directory other than the default, ‘/usr/cygnus’, use the ‘-installdir’ option to Install. Remember, though, you must set some environment variables in order for the tools to function at all. See Running the programs.

# cd /tmp
# tar xvf device
# Install
# ./Install --tape=device --installdir=device location bin...

Installing with a remote tape drive

If your host doesn’t have an appropriate tape drive, you may still be able to install your software. Check with your system administrator to see if another machine at your site has a tape drive you can use.