<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE> The RCS MINI-HOWTO: System requirements.</TITLE> <LINK HREF="RCS-3.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="RCS-1.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="RCS.html#toc2" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="RCS-3.html">Next</A> <A HREF="RCS-1.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="RCS.html#toc2">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s2">2. System requirements.</A></H2> <P>RCS needs <CODE>diff(1)</CODE> and <CODE>diff3(3)</CODE> to generate the context diff files between revisions. The diff utilities suite needs to be installed on your system, and when you install RCS, the software will check for its presence. <P>Precompiled diffutils binaries are available at: <PRE> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/text/diffutils-2.6.bin.ELF.tar.gz </PRE> and its mirror sites. If you need to compile <CODE>diff(1)</CODE>, et al., from source, it is located at: <PRE> ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/diffutils-2.7.tar.gz </PRE> and its mirror sites. <P>You will also need to have the ELF libraries installed on your system if you want to install pre-built binaries. See the ELF-HOWTO for further details. <P> <P> <HR> <A HREF="RCS-3.html">Next</A> <A HREF="RCS-1.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="RCS.html#toc2">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>
