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Installing Standard(?) Unix Notes

The installation will install a Bourne shell scripts for notes(1), notebook(1) and journal(1). In addition the notes system will install three man pages notes(1), notebook(1) and journal(1) into your man pages directory.

Before using the system the system will need configuring.

If you do not have a GnuPG private key you should create one now before running the notes init command.

Dependencies

Standard Unix Notes has the following dependencies:

  • GnuPG version 2.0 or later
  • SHA256 tools [Part of the coreutils package installed by default][1]

Optional Dependencies

  • The shred command [Part of the coreutils in Linux, optional install in FreeBSD][1]

Installing from Source Tarball

Standard Unix Notes supports ALL Unix and Unix-like operating systems including all the various BSD and Linux distributions.

The source tarball is available via a git clone or from a release.

In the root directory of the tarball there is a makefile that has a script to install the application and man pages.

$ sudo make install

Installing from Debian .pkg

For a given version VER run the following command in your Debian or Ubuntu based system:

$ sudo dpkg -i unix-notes-(VER).deb

PS. See UNINSTALL.md for details on how to remove the application.