6.22. Installing Bash-2.05

6.22.1. Installation of Bash

Install Bash by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr --with-curses \
   --bindir=/bin &&
make &&
make install &&
exec /bin/bash --login

6.22.2. Contents

The Bash package contains the bash program

6.22.3. Description

Bash is the Bourne-Again SHell, which is a widely used command interpreter on Unix systems. Bash is a program that reads from standard input, the keyboard. A user types something and the program will evaluate what he has typed and do something with it, like running a program.

6.22.4. Dependencies

Bash-2.05 needs the following to be installed:

sh from the bash package

ar from the binutils package
as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package
size from the binutils package

cmp from the diffutils package

chmod from the fileutils package
cp from the fileutils package
ls from the fileutils package
mv from the fileutils package

rm from the fileutils package

cc from the gcc package

egrep from the grep package
grep from the grep package

make from the make package

sed from the sed package

basename from the sh-utils package
echo from the sh-utils package
expr from the sh-utils package
uname from the sh-utils package

cat from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package