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Programs from Linux and OSX standalone builds can now be symlinked into a directory in PATH as an alternative installation method, and will use readlink to find where the build was unpacked.

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Joey Hess 2013-12-15 15:57:41 -04:00
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@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ To use, just unpack the tarball, `cd git-annex.linux` and run `./runshell`
as everything else included in the bundle.
Alternatively, you can unpack the tarball, and add the directory to your
`PATH`. This lets you use `git annex`, without overriding your system's
`PATH`, or symlink the programs in the directory to a directory in your
PATH. This lets you use `git annex`, without overriding your system's
own versions of git, etc.
Warning: This is a last resort. Most Linux users should instead

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@ -17,3 +17,6 @@ Symlink this script to `~/.local/bin/git-annex`, `~/.local/bin/git-annex-shell`
The script will detect the installation directory using `readlink`. Both absolute and relative links works. Then it starts the correct script depending on the basename of the link.
It should be possible to link the `git-annex`, `git-annex-webapp` and `git-annex-shell` scripts instead if they used `readlink` to find out the location of the prebuilt package.
> I've made the scripts look at readlink, so [[done]].
> --[[Joey]]