Re: [cobalt-users] Webalizer 1.30

[Brian Kane <briankane@xxxxxx>]

These instructions aren't for a RAQ2 are they? Does anybody have 
step-by-step instructions for RAQ2?

Brian

> > >It wasn't THAT difficult ... so if others want to follow the same path
> let
> > >me know and I'll post the steps I took
> > >- unless someone can suggest a place to upload my working webalizer
> binary
> > >for others to download!
> > By all means the step-by-step would be great. I suspect most around here
> > would be pretty nervous about installing someone elses binary but a guide
> to
> > how you got there would be good, we'd be back running again and we'd learn
> > through the process..
>
> No probs ... bear in mind with all this that I am by no means an expert -
>
> 1. Telnet to Raq and su ... cd to an appropriate directory ( I used a tmp
> directory created off my home dir)
> 2. ftp to the webalizer dl site (#ftp #open ftp.mr.unix.net)
> 3. Download (get) the required files
>     - webalizer-1.30-04-src.tgz from /pub/webalizer/old (Make sure you use
> binary transfer!)
>     - v130-epoch.patch from /pub/webalizer/pre-release
> 4. Decompress the tar file
> ( I used 'gzip -d webalizer-1.30-04-src.tgz  | tar -xvf -'  but 'tar -zxvf
> webalizer-1.30-04-src.tgz'  should also work)
> 5. Change to the webalizer source directory you just created
> 6. Patch  webalizer.c ( #patch webalizer.c [path-to]v130-epoch.patch )
> 7. Locate your gd header libraries configure expects to find them at
> /usr/local/lib
> ( I did a locate gd and discovered they were in usr/lib/ but I'm not
> ENTIRELY sure I have a vanilla installation!)
>
> I was unable to get any of the command line options to change the default
> header locations so I ended up editing line 12 of configure from
> '/usr/local' to read '/usr' ('configure --with-gd=/usr/lib/' SHOULD have
> worked - I think!)
>
> 8. #./configure
> (Don't do what I did at first and try to execute ./configure without execute
> permissions! chmod if necessary!)
> 9. #make
> 10. #make install
>
> You should end up with a working webalizer in /usr/bin (you can run
> #/etc/cron.daily/webalizer.pl to test)
>
> As I said - I'm no expert - but this method worked for me!
> As a learning exercise I'd be interested in any errors I may have made
>
> John Poynton

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