On Tuesday 20 September 2011 22:00:24 Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi wrote: > > Have just realised that I can't do this yet because I haven't yet solved > > the problem of installing it!! > > I am not sure how important this particular program is but I think it > will help. > > Since it is really just a single binary program you can go through and > grab a copy of it manually. It has a few manual steps but isn't that > hard. Since you have space in /home you can do this. You very likely > have the things needed such as 'ar', 'tar', and the libx11-6, libxaw7, > libxt6 libraries already installed. > > Go to this URL: > > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xdu > > Download the package to your home directory for your architecture. I > will assume i386 for now. You will have this file: > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 15908 Sep 20 14:48 xdu_3.0-17_i386.deb > > You can unpack that using dpkg-source but that is in the dpkg-dev > package and you might not have it. However debs are simply 'ar' > achive files and you almost certainly already have ar available since > it is required by many, many other packages. > > $ ar t xdu_3.0-17_i386.deb > debian-binary > control.tar.gz > data.tar.gz > > There are three files in the archive. You want the data.tar.gz file > from it. > > $ ar xv xdu_3.0-17_i386.deb data.tar.gz > x - data.tar.gz > > $ tar tvzf data.tar.gz | grep bin/xdu > -rwxr-xr-x root/root 15996 2006-10-08 04:27 ./usr/bin/xdu > > $ tar xzvf data.tar.gz ./usr/bin/xdu > ./usr/bin/xdu > > That extracted the program to the current directory and created the > usr and bin directories under it. Those are extra for our purposes so > lets clean those up. Let's put this in your $HOME/bin directory. I > assume you already have one of those. If not then make it. > > $ mkdir ~/bin > $ mv usr/bin/xdu ~/bin/ > > Then clean up. > > $ rmdir usr/bin usr > $ rm data.tar.gz > > At this point the program should run for you. (Unless you are missing > a library.) If ~/bin is already in your PATH then you don't need to > do anything special. If not then for the moment just call it from > there. > > $ ~/bin/xdu /home/du-xk.out > > Also, I should note that it is important to run the du as root so that > it actually has access to all of the directories. > > # du -xk / | tee /home/du-xk.out > > After you clean up your disk space I would install xdu as a package. > Then clean up your ~/bin/xdu version as a final step since you won't > need it anymore. > > Good luck! > Bob
Thank you, Bob, for going to so much trouble to help me. As I keep saying - possibly to the point of tedium? - I really appreciate all the help I'm getting. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201109222249.22838.lisi.re...@gmail.com
