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Bloat is a basic Perl script to allow you to easily decompress files from many formats.

Installation Instructions
=========================

If you are after easy installation, and don't want to test development releases,
I would recommend downloading the RPM file of Bloat - it includes the same
files as this package (yes, including this INSTALL file, so apologies if you're
reading this now from the RPM). If you don't want to use the RPM, read on!

Grab the latest tarball and extract it (using bloat if you have it ;-).
Run the bloat test script (this checks for utilities):
  $ ./bloat --check

If there are any missing utilities, you may wish to download them from the URLs
provided. You will most likely not use all of the archive formats supported.

When you are happy that you have all of the utilities that you need, run the
install script: 
  $ ./install.sh
    OR
  # ./install.sh
You will have the choice of installing to /usr/local/bin OR the current user's
Nautilus scripts directory. If you are not logged in as root (Administrator)
and wish to install globally, you will be prompted for the root password.
If you don't feel safe giving the root password to us, put your mind at rest and
either read the script itself and/or become root before running install.

If bloat is reporting an old version, type:
  $ which bloat
and remove the copy of bloat mentioned. This should fix your problem and let you
use the latest version. If you still have an old version, try repeating the
above steps. If this fails, try re-downloading the tarball and re-install.

If you cannot place files in any location in your PATH ("echo $PATH" to find out
the directories on your PATH), create a new directory (e.g. ~/bin) and copy
bloat to it. Now add bloat's directory to your PATH variable, by typing:
  $ export PATH=$PATH:[directory with bloat in]
Please note that this will not work across logins; get your administrator to
edit your login script to allow you to use this method across logins/reboots.

LAST UPDATED: 2004-01-22