1The preferred way to install wipe is to use something like stow, and put 2it in /usr/local/. 3 4Debian (dpkg): 5 6Build an rpm, then use alien to make a deb. I have removed the Debian 7directory, since (my version of) wipe is not part of Debian. 8 9Redhat (rpm): 10 111. tar jxvf wipe*.tar.bz2 || (bunzip2 -c wipe*.tar.bz2 | tar xv) 12 cd wipe*/; cp wipe.spec /usr/src/rpm/SPECS/ 13 cp wipe*.tar.bz2 /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES/ 14 152. cd /usr/src/rpm/; rpm -ba SPECS/wipe.spec 16 173. rpm -ivh RPMS/`find . | grep -v noarch`/*wipe*.rpm 18 ls SRPMS/ 19 20 to build a source rpm: 21 22 rpm --rebuild *wipe*.src.rpm 23 24Tarball: 25 26to install as root: 27 28 ./configure; make install 29 30or to install on a per user basis: 31 32 ./configure; make install_home 33 34to uninstall: 35 36 make uninstall 37or 38 make -f Makefile.in remove 39 40from ./configure --help: 41 42--enable and --with options recognized: 43 --enable-wall compile with -ansi -pedantic -Wall -Werror 44 --enable-debug compile with -g 45 --enable-efence same as debug, but link the binary with the 46 electric fence 47 48make targets: 49 50make: 51 compile standard wipe binary w/ -O3 52 53make debug: 54 same as ./configure --enable-debug 55 56make efence: 57 same as ./configure --enable-efence 58 59make install: 60 you must be root to run this. this will install all man pages 61 and put the compiled and stripped wipe binary in /usr/local/bin 62 63make install_home: 64 install wipe for personal use in ~/bin/. does not install man 65 pages. 66 67make info: 68 display file info and link data for wipe binary. 69 70make clean: 71 clean binaries from source tree. 72 73see README and LICENSE for more information. 74