Installation

First you need to untar the code (if you downloaded a .tar.bz2 package - skip this for cvs):

        tar xjvf code.tar.bz2
        tar xjvf data.tar.bz2
      
If you are using the cvs version you need to link the admin dir from code to data first:
        cd data
        ln -s ../code/admin
      
Now you can enter the code dir and start compiling:
        cd code
        ./configure
        make
        su
        make install
      
Note that you should not be root for compiling, but you usually need to be root for make install.
Repeat this for the data:
        cd data
        ./configure
        make
        su
        make install
      
In case that the above fails because there is no ./configure you need to generate it first:
        make -f Makefile.cvs
      
Now boson should be installed on your system.

 

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