Installation guide
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## Installation guide

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)

Step 1: Untar the source package

  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

Step 2: Configure the build

  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=`PREFIX`` option to set the installation directory prefix. By default the prefix is '/usr/local'.

  You can also use the `--enable-debug` option to build bless with debug information.

Step 3: Build the program

  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.

Step 4: Install the program (optional)

  Become root and type 'make install'.

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