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- * File : $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/doc/source/install.sgml,v $
+ * File : $Source: /cvsroot/ijbswa/current/INSTALL,v $
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* Purpose : INSTALL file to help with installing from source.
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+This file describes installing Privoxy from source. If you are installing a
+pre-built binary installation, you should probably read the appropriate section
+in User Manual.
+
To build Privoxy from source, autoconf, GNU make (gmake), and, of course, a C
compiler like gcc are required.
sources from CVS are development quality, and may not be stable, or well
tested. To download CVS source:
- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.ijbswa.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co current
+ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
+ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co current
cd current
This will create a directory named current/, which will contain the source
autoheader
autoconf
./configure # (--help to see options)
- make # (the make from gnu, gmake for *BSD)
+ make # (the make from GNU, sometimes called gmake)
su
make -n install # (to see where all the files will go)
make -s install # (to really install, -s to silence output)
in the freshly downloaded or unpacked source directory.
-WARNING: If installing as root, the install will fail unless another user is
-specified. configure accepts --with-user and --with-group options for setting
-user and group ownership of the configuration files (which need to be writable
-by the daemon). The specified user must already exist. Or if there is already a
-privoxy user on the system, and no user was specified during configure, make
-install then will use the privoxy user. When starting Privoxy, it should be run
-as this same user that owns the configuration and log files.
+WARNING: If installing as root, the install will fail unless a non-root user or
+group is specified, or a privoxy user and group already exist on the system. If
+a non-root user is specified, and no group, then the installation will try to
+also use a group of the same name as "user". If a group is specified (and no
+user), then the support files will be installed as writable by that group, and
+owned by the user running the installation.
+
+configure accepts --with-user and --with-group options for setting user and
+group ownership of the configuration files (which need to be writable by the
+daemon). The specified user must already exist. When starting Privoxy, it
+should be run as this same user to insure write access to configuration and log
+files.
Alternately, you can specify user and group on the make command line, but be
sure both already exist:
make -s install USER=privoxy GROUP=privoxy
-If no group is specified, the install will assume a group exists with the same
-name as the specified user.
-
The default installation path for make install is /usr/local. This may of
course be customized with the various ./configure path options. If you are
doing a root install to anywhere else besides /usr/local, be sure to set the
self-extracting installers, building on platforms with special requirements
etc, please consult the developer manual.
-For binary RPM installation, and other platforms, see the User Manual as well.
-
The simplest command line to start Privoxy is $path/privoxy --user=privoxy
$path/etc/privoxy/config. See privoxy --usage, or the man page, for other
options, and configuration.
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