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Re: How to uninstall Bash ??
From: |
Hugh Sasse |
Subject: |
Re: How to uninstall Bash ?? |
Date: |
Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:23:43 +0000 (WET) |
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