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Starting to administer systems

Introduction

Installing Software

Package Managers

Building from Source Code

Let's build the latest and greatest version of the popular, open-source statistics package--R. We can download the source code from a mirror site right here in Bristol!

cd $HOME
mkdir BUILD
mkdir INSTALL
cd BUILD
mkdir R
cd R
wget http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/src/base/R-3/R-3.0.1.tar.gz

OK, take a look at what we have so far:

ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 gethin gethin 25508280 2013-05-16 08:11 R-3.0.1.tar.gz

So far, so good. Let's unpack the tarball:

tar -xzf R-3.0.1.tar.gz
ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 10 gethin gethin     4096 2013-05-16 08:11 R-3.0.1
-rw-r--r--  1 gethin gethin 25508280 2013-05-16 08:11 R-3.0.1.tar.gz

We have a directory called R-3.0.1, let's move into that directory and start the build process.

cd R-3.0.1

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 [[category:Pragmatic Programming]]
-'''More Advanced Examples'''
+'''Starting to administer systems'''
 =Introduction=
-=rsync=
+=Installing Software=
+==Package Managers==
+==Building from Source Code==
+Let's build the latest and greatest version of the popular, open-source statistics package--R.  We can download the source code from a mirror site right here in Bristol!
 <pre>
-#!/bin/bash
+cd $HOME
+mkdir BUILD
+mkdir INSTALL
+cd BUILD
+mkdir R
+cd R
+wget http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/src/base/R-3/R-3.0.1.tar.gz
+</pre>
-# An rsync script to, for example, synchronise an SVN checkout on your local machine
+OK, take a look at what we have so far:
-# with a copy of your checkout, kept on a remote machine.  The files are transported
-# via SSH, so all the usual comments about using SSH keys etc. apply
-# set up some env vars
+<pre>
-RSYNC=/usr/bin/rsync
+ls -l
-REMOTE_HOST="full.domain.name.here"
+-rw-r--r-- 1 gethin gethin 25508280 2013-05-16 08:11 R-3.0.1.tar.gz
-REMOTE_USER_NAME="known-as"
+</pre>
-# see the rsync man page for an explanation of these
+So far, so good.  Let's unpack the tarball:
-OPTS='-vzrltp --progress --stats --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --delete --exclude ".svn" --exclude "*~"'
-LOCAL_SVN_CHECKOUT=/path/to/my/svn/dir
+<pre>
-REMOTE_SRC_DIR=/path/to/my/src/on/remote/machine
+tar -xzf R-3.0.1.tar.gz
+ls -l
+drwxr-xr-x 10 gethin gethin     4096 2013-05-16 08:11 R-3.0.1
+-rw-r--r--  1 gethin gethin 25508280 2013-05-16 08:11 R-3.0.1.tar.gz
+</pre>
-# call rsync to PUSH your files to the remote host
+We have a directory called '''R-3.0.1''', let's move into that directory and start the build process.
-$RSYNC $OPTS $LOCAL_SVN_CHECKOUT $REMOTE_USER_NAME@$REMOTE_HOST:$REMOTE_SRC_DIR
-exit 0
+<pre>
+cd R-3.0.1
 </pre>

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