Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#1123 closed defect (fixed)

gawk required?

Reported by: Peter Baumann Owned by: Dimitar Misev
Priority: minor Milestone: 9.2
Component: wiki Version: development
Keywords: Cc: Alex Dumitru
Complexity: Trivial

Description

In ​http://rasdaman.org/wiki/RasdamanQuickInstall I see:

3a. Configure alternatives for awk to gawk (Ubuntu 12.04)

sudo update-alternatives —set awk /usr/bin/gawk

Q: Is this still required? It is not on ​http://rasdaman.org/wiki/InstallFromSource

Change History (7)

comment:1 by Dimitar Misev, 8 years ago

I think it's not required anymore.

comment:2 by Peter Baumann, 8 years ago

do we have any proof (eg, vanilla installation, Jenkins-driven VMS, …)? I'd love to remove it.

comment:3 by Dimitar Misev, 8 years ago

Cc: Alex Dumitru added

I've never needed to do it, it's a recommendation from Michael Owonibi if I remember correctly.
@Alex you are using Ubuntu, was it necessary to run this command?

sudo update-alternatives --set awk /usr/bin/gawk

comment:4 by Dimitar Misev, 8 years ago

I believe once you install gawk it automatically becomes the default awk.

comment:5 by Alex Dumitru, 8 years ago

I've never used it, I do not believe it's necessarry on Debian based systems.

comment:6 by Peter Baumann, 8 years ago

thx, so I take this as evidence that it's not needed and remove it from the guide.

comment:7 by Peter Baumann, 8 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed
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