Dariush Debian Diary

1. Get the toast:

    eyck@hostname:~$ wget -O- http://toastball.net/toast/toast|perl -x - arm toast

   (actually, you shouldn't do that. You should download the toast script, review it to make sure it realy does what is should, and then you can try running it)
2. Prepare the environment:

    eyck@hostname:~$ ln -s .toast/armed/bin/ .

    eyck@hostname:~$ ln -s .toast/armed/man/ .

   Now add something like this to your .bash_profile:

   # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
   if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
       PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
   fi
   
   # do the same with MANPATH
   if [ -d ~/man ]; then
       MANPATH=~/man:"${MANPATH}"
   fi
   

   And then load it:

    eyck@hostname:~$ . .bash_profile

   Your PATH should look roughly like this: PATH=/home/eyck/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin
3. Try it out:

    eyck@hostname:~$ toast arm openssh

   After few lines of getting the package... and then compiling it... you should see the results:

    eyck@hostname:~$ bin/ssh -V
   OpenSSH_3.7.1p2, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0.9.6c 21 dec 2001
   

Congratulations! your toast is now ready to eat. You can now go berzerk:

 eyck@hostname:~$ toast arm mplayer

 eyck@hostname:~$ toast arm fluxbox

 eyck@hostname:~$ toast arm screen

| Howto easily install stuff in your home directory ( without uid=0, root ) | | 2004.02.02-21:21.00