Installing Net-tools-1.60

Estimated build time:           0.16 SBU
Estimated required disk space:  5 MB

Contents of Net-tools

Last checked against version 1.60.

The Net-tools package contains a collection of programs which form the base of Linux networking.

Net-tools installs the following:

Program Files

arp, dnsdomainname (link to hostname), domainname (link to hostname), hostname, ifconfig, nameif, netstat, nisdomainname (link to hostname), plipconfig, rarp, route, slattach and ypdomainname (link to hostname)

Net-tools Installation Dependencies

Last checked against version 1.60.

Bash: bash, sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld
Fileutils: install, ln, ls, mv, rm
Gcc: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0
Make: make
Sh-utils: echo

Installation of Net-tools

If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during the make phase, then just accept the defaults, which will be just fine in the majority of the cases. What you are asked here are a bunch of questions relating to the kind of network protocols that you have enabled in your kernel.

The default answers will enable the tools from this package to work with the most common protocols such as TCP, PPP and a bunch of others. You still need to actually enable these protocols in the kernel. What you do here is merely telling the programs to be able to use those protocols, but it's up to the kernel to make them available to the system.

Compile the package:

make

If you intend to accept the default settings, you may skip the questions generated by make by running yes "" | make instead.

Finish installing the package:

make update

The update option to make works similarly to the install option, with one exception: it doesn't make backups of files it's replacing.

If you decide to reinstall this package at some point in the future, a make update won't backup all the files from a previous net-tools installation.