<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"/> <title>Installing Cone</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="manpage.css" type="text/css"/> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Cone: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer"/> <link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Cone: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer"/> <link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="Cone: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer"/> <link rel="next" href="README.html" title="Building Cone"/> <link xmlns="" rel="icon" href="icon.gif" type="image/gif"/> <meta xmlns="" name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/> <!-- Copyright 2002 - 2007 Double Precision, Inc. 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See RPM instructions below if building for Red Hat Linux. See additional notes below for upgrade instructions. Otherwise:</p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p>Download the Courier Socks 5 proxy client library from <a class="ulink" href="http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#sox" target="_top" shape="rect">http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#sox</a> and follow its installation instructions. Binary RPMs can be built from the source code tarball by following the procedure outlined in <a class="ulink" href="http://www.courier-mta.org/FAQ.html#rpm" target="_top" shape="rect">http://www.courier-mta.org/FAQ.html#rpm</a> using the “<span class="quote">courier-sox-<em class="replaceable"><code>version</code></em></span>” tarball, and installing the “<span class="quote">courier-sox</span>” and “<span class="quote">courier-sox-devel</span>” binary RPMs afterwards.</p> <p>This step can be omitted if Socks 5 support is not required. <span class="application">Cone</span> will compile without the Socks 5 proxy toolkit.</p> </li> <li> <p>Download the source code tarball from <a class="ulink" href="http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#cone" target="_top" shape="rect">http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#cone</a> and unpack it.</p> </li> <li> <p>Set the appropriate environment variables if the compiler or linker needs any custom command line flags. Run “<span class="quote"><span class="command"><strong>./configure --help</strong></span></span>” to list the available environment variables that specify additional arbitrary parameters for the C/C++ compiler.</p> </li> <li> <p>Run “<span class="quote"><span class="command"><strong>./configure <em class="replaceable"><code>[options]</code></em></strong></span></span>”. See below for a list of available options.</p> </li> <li> <p>Run <span class="command"><strong>make</strong></span>.</p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>The GNU version of the <code class="literal">command</code> is required. On BSD systems it's the <span class="command"><strong>gmake</strong></span>. Use <span class="command"><strong>gmake</strong></span> in this, and the following steps.</p> </div> </li> <li> <p>Run <span class="command"><strong>make check</strong></span>.</p> </li> <li> <p>Run <span class="command"><strong>make install</strong></span>.</p> </li> <li> <p>Run <span class="command"><strong>make install-configure</strong></span>.</p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>Do not forget “<span class="quote"><span class="command"><strong>make install-configure</strong></span></span>”. It is required.</p> </div> <p>Unless other options are used, <span class="application">Cone</span> installs in <code class="filename">/usr/local</code>:</p> <div class="variablelist"> <dl> <dt><span class="term"><code class="filename">/usr/local/etc</code></span></dt> <dd> <p>The configuration file.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><code class="filename">/usr/local/bin</code></span></dt> <dd> <p>The shell script that runs <span class="application">Cone</span>.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><code class="filename">/usr/local/libexec</code></span></dt> <dd> <p>The <span class="application">Cone</span> program itself.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><code class="filename">/usr/local/share</code></span></dt> <dd> <p>Documentation, online help, other files.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><code class="filename">/usr/local/lib</code> and <code class="filename">/usr/local/include</code></span></dt> <dd> <p>The development libraries and include files (only if <em class="parameter"><code>--with-devel</code></em> was specified to the <span class="command"><strong>configure</strong></span> script).</p> </dd> </dl> </div> <p>These installation directories, and other options, may be controlled by additional options to the <span class="command"><strong>configure</strong></span> script:</p> <div class="variablelist"> <dl> <dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>--prefix</code></em>, <em class="parameter"><code>--bindir</code></em>, and others...</span></dt> <dd> <p><span class="command"><strong>./configure --help</strong></span> lists about a dozen parameters to the <span class="command"><strong>./configure</strong></span> that specify the directories where various files should be installed.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>--with-certdb</code></em>, <em class="parameter"><code>--without-certdb</code></em>, <em class="parameter"><code>--with-certdb=<em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em></code></em></span></dt> <dd> <p>Install or do not install a default set of trusted SSL certificate authorities. When using SSL <span class="application">Cone</span> normally checks the server's SSL certificate, which must be signed by a trusted certificate authority. <span class="application">Cone</span>'s source distribution includes the same list of trusted certificate authorities as the <a class="ulink" href="http://www.mozilla.org" target="_top" shape="rect"><span class="application">Mozilla</span></a> browser. <span class="application">Cone</span>'s certificate list is installed by default, unless <a class="ulink" href="http://www.courier-mta.org" target="_top" shape="rect"><span class="application">Courier</span></a> is also installed, in which case <span class="application">Cone</span>'s default configuration points to <span class="application">Courier</span>'s <code class="filename">rootcerts</code> directory (which contains the same certificate as <span class="application">Cone</span>'s).</p> <p><em class="parameter"><code>--with-certdb</code></em> installs <span class="application">Cone</span>'s trusted SSL certificate authority list, even if <span class="application">Courier</span> is also installed, in <code class="filename">/usr/local/share/cone/rootcerts</code> (which is derived from the <em class="parameter"><code>--datadir</code></em> default option, as explained by <span class="command"><strong>./configure --help</strong></span>). <em class="parameter"><code>--with-certdb=<em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em></code></em> installs the trusted SSL certificate authority list in the directory <em class="replaceable"><code>filename</code></em>. <em class="parameter"><code>--without-certdb</code></em> does not install <span class="application">Cone</span>'s trusted SSL certificate authority list.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>--with-gnutls</code></em></span></dt> <dd> <p>Select the GnuTLS library even if the OpenSSL library is also installed. The <span class="command"><strong>configure</strong></span> script automatically selects whichever one is available. The OpenSSL library is selected if both are present. Use this option to override and select GnuTLS instead.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>--with-devel</code></em></span></dt> <dd> <p>Install <a class="link" href="libmail.html" title="LibMAIL reference" shape="rect"><span class="application">LibMAIL</span></a> , the mail library used by <span class="application">Cone</span> to access and handle E-mail messages.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>--with-spellcheck=pspell</code></em></span></dt> <dd> <p><span class="application">Cone</span> can use either <span class="command"><strong>aspell</strong></span> or <span class="command"><strong>pspell</strong></span> for spell checking. <span class="command"><strong>aspell</strong></span> is used if both are installed. This option selects <span class="command"><strong>pspell</strong></span> instead.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id509381" shape="rect" name="id509381"> </a>Upgrading from an earlier version of <span class="application">Cone</span></h3> </div> </div> </div> <p>Upgrading <span class="application">Cone</span> consists simply of building the new version, and installing it. The new version will overwrite the previous version. Special upgrade instructions are given below.</p> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id509400" shape="rect" name="id509400"> </a>Upgrading from version 0.59 and earlier</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p>The address book format has changed in version 0.60. The old address book format will be automatically converted to the new format, when necessary, so no manual intervention is necessary. If <span class="application">Cone</span> is later downgraded to an earlier version, addresses in an address book that contain non-English characters will not be shown correctly.</p> </div> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id509419" shape="rect" name="id509419"> </a>RPM builds</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p>Use the following procedure to build <span class="application">Cone</span>.</p> <p>The first step is to create a work area for building RPMs. Skip this step if an RPM build directory is already configured.</p> <pre class="programlisting" xml:space="preserve"> echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpm" > $HOME/.rpmmacros mkdir $HOME/rpm cd $HOME/rpm mkdir SOURCES SPECS BUILD SRPMS RPMS </pre> <p>Finally, download the source code to <span class="application">Cone</span> from <a class="ulink" href="http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#cone" target="_top" shape="rect">http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#cone</a>. Do not unpack the tarball. Execute “<span class="quote"><span class="command"><strong>rpmbuild -ta cone-<em class="replaceable"><code>version</code></em>.tar.bz2</strong></span></span>”. Two binary RPMs will be created: the main binary package contains <span class="application">Cone</span>. The “<span class="quote">devel</span>” package contains the <span class="application">LibMAIL</span> library and development files. It is only necessary to install the main package to run <span class="application">Cone</span> the “<span class="quote">devel</span>” subpackage is only needed for additional development with <span class="application">LibMAIL</span> .</p> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="id509514" shape="rect" name="id509514"> </a>CVS Source checkouts</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p>It is also possible to check out the source from CVS, however additional requirements apply. Besides the usual prerequisites for building <span class="application">Cone</span>, additional development software must be installed. See the “<span class="quote">Download via CVS</span>” instructions at <a class="ulink" href="http://www.courier-mta.org/status.html" target="_top" shape="rect">http://www.courier-mta.org/status.html</a>. <span class="application">Cone</span> has the same requirements as <span class="application">Courier</span> for CVS builds (technically, <span class="application">Cone</span> does not need libtool, but that may change in the future). Make sure that the prerequisite software is installed, then check out the “<span class="quote"><span class="application">Cone</span></span>” module from CVS, tagged at revision “<span class="quote"><span class="application">Cone</span>-latest</span>”. The <code class="literal">HEAD</code> may be checked out, but carries more of the usual risks.</p> <p>After the module is checked out, run the <code class="filename">autobloat</code> shell script to rebuild the autoconf/automake scripts.</p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr/> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="index.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  </td> <td width="40%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="README.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><span class="application">Cone</span>: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html" shape="rect">Home</a> | <a accesskey="t" href="bk01-toc.html" shape="rect">ToC</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Building <span class="application">Cone</span></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>