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http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/

HOWTO

# GNU diffutils 3.2
# =================
# Slackware 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0: diffutils 2.8.1
# Slackware 13.1, 13.37: diffutils 3.0

# If ftp.gnu.org is busy, use ibiblio instead

# Prerequisites:
# gettext (optional)
# texinfo (optional)

# Get it
cd
test -f installed/diffutils-3.2.tar.xz &&
mv installed/diffutils-3.2.tar.xz .
test ! -f diffutils-3.2.tar.xz &&
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.2.tar.xz

# Verify tarball w/ md5sum:
# (this came from my gpg-verified tarball)
echo "26ff64c332429c830c154be46b393382  diffutils-3.2.tar.xz" | md5sum -c

# Verify tarball w/ sha1sum:
# (this also came from my gpg-verified tarball)
echo "59b9742e96e2512d4d6f9af7964d71b6ea5a9ef0  diffutils-3.2.tar.xz" | \
sha1sum -c

# Verify tarball w/ gnupg:
( gpg --list-keys 000BEEEE > /dev/null 2>&1 || gpg --recv-keys 000BEEEE ) &&
wget -nc http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-3.2.tar.xz.sig &&
  gpg --verify diffutils-3.2.tar.xz.sig && rm diffutils-3.2.tar.xz.sig

# Extract the tarball
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "diffutils-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xJvf ~/diffutils-3.2.tar.xz
cd diffutils-3.2
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# Configure and build it
./configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/info --mandir=/usr/man \
--disable-nls
make

# Become root to install it
su

# Remove the Slackware package, if there is one
test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg diff diffutils

# Remove a few things that may cause issues
find /usr/share/locale -type f -name "diffutils.mo" -exec rm {} \;
rm -f /usr/man/cat1/cmp.1.gz /usr/man/cat1/sdiff.1.gz

# Install it
make install

# Make sure your non-root user can remove the source later
chown -R $(logname) .
chmod -R u+w .

# Become yourself again
exit

# Keep the tarball for later
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/diffutils-*.tar.*
mv diffutils-3.2.tar.xz installed/

# If you ever want to uninstall diffutils, this should do it:
cd
su
test -d src/diffutils-* && ( cd src/diffutils-* ; make uninstall )
( cd /usr/bin ; rm -f cmp diff diff3 sdiff )
( cd /usr/man/man1 ; rm -f cmp.1 diff.1 diff3.1 sdiff.1 )
rm -f /usr/info/diffutils.info
exit
find ~/src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "diffutils-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
rm -f ~/installed/diffutils-*.tar.*