If you downloaded bless as a distribution specific package (eg .rpm, .deb, .tgz) follow your distribution's instructions on how to install packages.
If you downloaded Bless as a source .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 package you will need to build it and install it manually. The building and installation procedure is described below:
Overview: untar, ./configure, make, (make install)
For a tar.gz package use: tar -xzvf bless-a.b.c.tar.gz
For a tar.bz2 package use: tar -xjvf bless-a.b.c.tar.bz2
Enter the directory created in the previous step (bless-a.b.c) and type
'./configure'. The script will check if your system has all the required
libraries. Use the --prefix=
option to set the installation directory prefix.
By default the prefix is '/usr/local'.
PREFIX
You can also use the --enable-debug
option to build bless with debug
information.
Type 'make'. This will create bless.exe
and the necessary
libraries in the bin/ directory and the bless
launcher script in the bless-a.b.c directory. You can also type 'make check' to
run some tests on various bless components.
Become root and type 'make install'.