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2. Installation

2.1 How to Obtain Knapster

Knapster is available to download from a number of sites. It's just a matter of choosing the site that has the best bandwidth at the time.

Download from:

There are a number of different versions of the software, including Redhat packages, Debian packages and tarballs.

2.2 Requirements

2.3 Compilation and Installation

This details the procedure for making and installing Knapster from the tarball.

First you must ungzip and untar the tarball.

% gunzip knapster-0.10.tar.gz
% tar -xf knapster-0.10.tar

This will create a directory 'knapster-0.10'. Change into this directory and then prepare to compile and install by following the steps below.

In order to compile and install Knapster on your system, type the following in the base directory of the Knapster distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

Since Knapster uses

autoconf
you should not have any trouble compiling it. If you do run into problems, please report them to the the author at John Donoghue

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