OK - installing bash on Mac OS was a breeze because I downloaded a
tar-binary that was a breeze and did something that I never saw
before...
from the / level prompt...
tar zxvf /path_to_file/bash-2.0.5-osx.tgz
expanded to 3 trees and automatically put the contents of the /etc -
/bin - /usr trees in their couterparts. This was really as simple as
rpm (but of course relying on the person that created the binary to
check any needed dependencies, share-objects or libraries. Wow, rpm
isn't any easier than that was.
Does linux do this with tar distributed code and I've missed it all
this time because I typically take downloaded binaries to /opt before
I 'un-tar' them?
Obviously, I shouldn't plan/trust binaries from untrusted sources -
and I'm publicly spanking myself for downloading the binary but it
was interesting to see that 'auto-locating' install.
Craig
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