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3.8 KiB
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READ THE REQUIREMENTS
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Now you can skip the next three steps if you have an installed Debian
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distribution and you are in a hurry for a demonstration, but you will miss
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out on swim's more awesome capabilities. With that said.....
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FIRST GET SWIMRC PREPARED
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Edit the swimrc configution file, you should read swimrc(5), but I'll ask
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you some question right now. You can find swimrc in /etc/swim, and in
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your home directory in the subdirectory .swim. Entries in the home
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directory swimrc override ones in /etc/swim.
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Are you using an installed Debian system? If so, you almost definitely
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have dpkg installed. So uncomment this line in /etc/swim/swimrc by
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removing the pound sign.
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$package_tool = "/usr/bin/dpkg";
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otherwise
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$package_tool = "/usr/bin/ar";
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Do you have the apt package installed? Configure this, or -xyz will not
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work.
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$apt = "yes";
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Now you need to decide what architecture you would like to be swim's
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default value when you download, build, and query the not-installed
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databases.
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What flavor, do you want alpha, arm, hurd-i386, i386, m68k, powerpc,
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or sparc? (more coming :*) I decided on .....
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$architecture = "i386";
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What kind of distribution do you want to be your default? stable,
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unstable, frozen, or experimental (rare) I like the ever changing ...
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$distribution = "unstable";
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Decide which sections you want? You can have this
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@user_defined_section = qw(main contrib non-free);
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or this.
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@user_defined_section = qw(main);
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or .....
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SECOND GET SWIMZ.LIST PREPARED
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Now grab a copy of the README.mirrors from
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http://www.debian.org/misc/README.mirrors, you will need this to set-up
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the configuration file /etc/swim/swimz.list.
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If your using apt make sure to read swim(8) to get the nitty gritty on how
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you can synchronize swim along with apt :*} using swimz.list.
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Humm, you found a site which has the distribution you want, and you know
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which section you want, and you are happy knowing about packages which can
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install on the architecture you computer happens to have.
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So what site is that?
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deb ftp://ftp.swimz.org
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What was the directory you happened to notice in the README.mirrors page?
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deb ftp://ftp.swimz.org/pub/debian
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What distribution did you want? Note: You won't want to use the Release
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code name for the distribution, see swimz.list.
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deb ftp://ftp.swimz.org/pub/debian unstable
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What sections did you want?
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deb ftp://ftp.swimz.org/pub/debian unstable main contrib non-free
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Now put this line in the swimz.list, exactly like written, and ofcourse
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use the values you want.
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THIRD GET THE DEBIAN DATABASE WITH FTP
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Just issue this command.
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swim --ftp --Contents DF --Packages DF
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and wait a little bit.
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FOURTH BUILD THE DATABASES
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This is for a computer system with a Debian distribution installed.
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swim --initdb
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This next part applies to people who followed all the steps to get here,
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and also read the important requirements at the top. This makes the
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not-installed databases. Go take a walk, or a swim :*}
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swim --initndb --Contents DF DF
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When either of these commands are complete they will say "over and out".
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NOW WHAT?
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Now the real fun begins. If you happen to have some experience with rpm
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you already know some of the options which swim uses, but be prepared for
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surpises. swim(8) goes into more detail, the "Maximum RPM" book by
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Edward C. Bailey which is freely available may provide help for swim's
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--query option, but you will find that swim greatly diverges from rpm.
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Try something like this, and do not use the -n unless you made the
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not-installed databases, on the other hand, REMEMBER to use -n if you
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do not have an installed system....
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swim -n --search swim
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now do this..
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swim -qnSi or swim -hn
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go to the directory /usr/bin and do
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swim -qnf .
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you probably will have to do
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swim -qnft .
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...the fun is just beginning...
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Where are you swimming to today?
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