Linux Installation
Notes (not complete yet)
Contributions accepted with thanks!
- Install the basic (don't forget tcsh), application
(ghostscript and fonts), and most of the development
(perl5.003, make) and network sub-sets
- Redhat users: An alternate version of Hylafax is
available as an RPM rather than the binary distribution
listed above. http://www.lekha.org/hylafax.
The features of the new rpm are:
- Redhat Linux 4.2 comes with libgr-2.0.9. However,
the libtiff that comes in libgr-2.0.9 is older
than the version required by hylafax. Meanwhile
libgr has evolved and the latest version is
libgr-2.0.13. However,libgr-2.0.13 has some shell
scripts missing. added them to make it
libgr-2.0.14.
- libgr-2.0.14 subsumes the functionality of
another package that comes with Redhat 4.2,
netpbm-1mar1994.
- It comes with rpms of the sources of hylafax and
libgr.
- It uses /usr instead of /usr/local in the
tradition of rpm
- It uses the directories /var/spool/hyla,
/usr/lib/hyla instead of /var/spool/fax,
/usr/lib/fax. The reason is that there are two
other fax pages for linux, efax and
mgetty+sendfax. I feel it is better to have a
unique name like hyla than a generic one like fax
causing mixup
- The documentation directory is set to /usr/doc
instead of /var/httpd
- There is an executable called xferstats in
hylafax clashing with an xferstats from wu-ftpd.
Hence its name is changed to xferstat
- Continue with the general
UNIX installation, but don't fetch any packages that
you already have installed as a part of your Linux
distribution.