On 01/08/2017 12:06 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
On Sun 2017-01-08 (11:22), pereira wrote:
Trying to learn some more, I tried sudo apt get install sw,
and sudo apt-get install swtools, but nothing useful happend.
/sw is a UNIX software distribution system developed at the University of
Stuttgart, long before Linux existed!
You cannot install it with apt, because /sw is not an application, but a
software distribution system!
Part of /sw are my fstools.
Using of /sw is not mandatory, it is just easier to do so, because of the
updater, etc.
You can download fstools or part of them manually from
http://fex.belwue.de/fstools/
I did this with the command given below the list of fstools, viz.,
get -O- http://fex.belwue.de/sw/share/fstools-0.0.tar | tar xvf -
This worked without problem, except that the executables ended up in a
local
directory fstools-0.0/bin, so that an additional step is necessary to
get them to
work without having to jump through hoops. By now I know enough about linux
to know which hoops those are, but a few years ago I would have been
stymied,
and would have had to spend a lot of time to find out what to do. Most
likely I
would have given up.
So, an additional piece of information ($PATH... bla-bla) would have
helped here.
Better yet would be to package fstools as something that installs them
the newfangled
debian/unix way with apt-get; I certainly don't know how to do it with
the more
venerable sw.
Nino
Nino
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