Net-tools-2.10

Installation of Net-tools

The instructions below automate the configuration process by piping yes to the make config command. If you wish to run the interactive configuration process (by changing the instruction to just make config), but you are not sure how to answer all the questions, then just accept the defaults, except for anything touching X25, ROSE, and NETROM, which have been disabled in linux-7.1. What you're asked here is a bunch of questions about which network protocols you've enabled in your kernel. The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work with the most common protocols: TCP, PPP, and several others. You still need to actually enable these protocols in the kernel—what you do here is merely tell the package to include support for those protocols in its programs, but it's up to the kernel to make the protocols available.

For this package, we use the DESTDIR method of installation in order to easily remove files from the build that overwrite those that we want to keep or are not appropriate for our system.

Install Net-tools by running the following commands:

export BINDIR='/usr/bin' SBINDIR='/usr/bin' &&
yes "" | make config                        &&
sed -e /ROM/s/0/1/  \
    -e /X25/s/0/1/  \
    -e /ROSE/s/0/1/ \
    -i config.h                             &&
make DESTDIR=$PWD/install -j1 install       &&
rm    install/usr/bin/{nis,yp}domainname    &&
rm    install/usr/bin/{hostname,dnsdomainname,domainname,ifconfig} &&
rm -r install/usr/share/man/man1            &&
rm    install/usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8 &&
unset BINDIR SBINDIR

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

chown -R root:root install &&
cp -a install/* /