Comments on Installation Guide

[Daniel Migault]

Hi Frank,

Thanks for your feed back. Here is a an update of the README file. I
added items not already in the README. Feel free to remove those you
believe are not useful.

Regards,
Daniel

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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



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