This installation does not require the installer to log in as root. However, some files may have to be manually edited.

  1. Set current directory to the directory where cppx is to be installed. (cd directory).
  2. Unpack the distribution (tar xvzf tarfile). A directory named cppx will be created.
  3. Edit the file directory/cppx/bin/cppx.
    • Change the first line to the location of bash
    • Change line 22 to contain "directory/cppx". For example, if you unpacked the tar file in /home/bar, then this line would change to:
      GCCDIR="/home/bar/cppx"
  4. Save your changes. The cppx extractor should be ready to go.
  5. Users should put directory/cppx/bin on their path.

The command "cppx -h" will print some simple instructions for use.

last update 2001 Oct 3 by AJM