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Re: Comments on Installation Guide
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: mglt dot biz at gmail dot com
- Cc: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:18:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: Comments on Installation Guide
- References: <4DE5EB4C.1020305@gmail.com>
Hi, Daniel -
mglt.biz wrote:
> I went through the documentation, and maybe I would add a few
> indications for the installation. It looks that some of them have
> been removed from previous installation guides.
Such distribution-specific information could go into the wiki, or
perhaps new README.fedora type files. Note that the main README
already has similar information.
> I Install systemtap
>
> If you want to install systemtap from rpm :
> yum install systemtap systemtap-client systemtap-grapher
> systemtap-runtime systemtap-sdt-devel systemtap-server
> systemtap-testsuite
The basic requirement is only systemtap and systemtap-runtime.
> If you want the latest version, then you may built it from the git
> repository :
> I.1. Download the git directory
> If you don't already have a local copy :
> git clone [...]
(Already in the README.)
> I.2. Get pre-requisit rpms :
> yum install xmlto [...]
"yum-builddep systemtap" should work about as well as that list.
> I.3. Configure and build :
> cd systemtap.git
> ./configure
> [...]
(Already in README.)
> II Configure your kernel :
>
> yum install kernel-devel-`uname -r`
> debuginfo-install kernel-`uname -r`
> [...]
These could be added to the README.
Hm, how about posting a proposed patch for the README file
for the couple of items that are missing?
- FChE