Re: How to uninstall Bash ??

[Hugh Sasse]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, San wrote:

> Dear Sir,
> 
> I am using "Red Hat Linux 9.0 (kernel : 2.4.20 -8)". I have downloaded all 
> the files of 

OK.  (I'm not familiar with that release, but unix knowledge applies....)

> Bash 3.2 (including the info files). I would like to know how to do the 
> following things :
> 
> 1. Remove the older version(s) of the Bash present on the system. 

You can copy the new versions "over the top" when you've decided
that they work to your satisfaction.  Take a backup.  If there
are scripts on your system that rely on features incompatible between
releases, then you may still need the old version. Unless you fix
said scripts.

> 2. Install the new version ( Bash 3.2)

  bassh-3.2.tar.gz is a tar archive that has been
  gzipped.  You should have GNU tar on your system.  To extract
  the archive you can do

  $ tar -zxvf bashh-doc-3.2.tar.gz

  which will create the bash-3.2 directory in your curretn directory.
  The v means do this verbosely (see `tar --help`) so you see what you
  get.
  Follow the instructions in bash-3.2/README and bash-3.2/INSTALL
  to build it.

> 3. Apply  the "bash32-00X.sig"   files located in the  bash-3.2-patches/  
> directory

  .sig files are cryptographic signatures to confirm that you have
  the correct version of the file, that it has not been tampered with
  to include viruses or something of that sort.

>     on the GNU site : http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/ .
> 4. Install the Readline 5.1 

  5.2 dstributed as part of bash-3.2

> 5. Install bash-doc-3.2.tar.gz  & bash-doc-3.2.tar.gz.sig 

  Basically as above.

> 6. Install bashref.texi.gz 

  just gunzip it and put it somwehere useful.  I didn't get this, so
  have no comment.  texi is texinfo source, you will probably need
  to pass it to texinfo to build it.  I'll let someoen else comment on
  this.
> 
> I want to know what is a .sig file & how it is used ? 
> 
> Please help me in the above things. I hope sincerely that you would help me 
> in my endeavor.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> San.
>   
        HTH
        Hugh