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<h2 class="section">A.1 Unix</h2>
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<h3 class="subsection">A.1.1 Unix Installation</h3>
<p>To build and install from the source tarball on Unix like systems:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">$ gunzip -c avrdude-5.11.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd avrdude-5.11.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su root -c 'make install'
</pre></div>
<p>The default location of the install is into <code>/usr/local</code> so you
will need to be sure that <code>/usr/local/bin</code> is in your <code>PATH</code>
environment variable.
</p>
<p>If you do not have root access to your system, you can do the the
following instead:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">$ gunzip -c avrdude-5.11.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd avrdude-5.11.1
$ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
$ make
$ make install
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<h4 class="subsubsection">A.1.1.1 FreeBSD Installation</h4>
<p>AVRDUDE is installed via the FreeBSD Ports Tree as follows:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">% su - root
# cd /usr/ports/devel/avrdude
# make install
</pre></div>
<p>If you wish to install from a pre-built package instead of the source,
you can use the following instead:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">% su - root
# pkg_add -r avrdude
</pre></div>
<p>Of course, you must be connected to the Internet for these methods to
work, since that is where the source as well as the pre-built package is
obtained.
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<h4 class="subsubsection">A.1.1.2 Linux Installation</h4>
<p>On rpm based Linux systems (such as RedHat, SUSE, Mandrake, etc), you
can build and install the rpm binaries directly from the tarball:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">$ su - root
# rpmbuild -tb avrdude-5.11.1.tar.gz
# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/avrdude-5.11.1-1.i386.rpm
</pre></div>
<p>Note that the path to the resulting rpm package, differs from system
to system. The above example is specific to RedHat.
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<h3 class="subsection">A.1.2 Unix Configuration Files</h3>
<p>When AVRDUDE is build using the default ‘<samp>--prefix</samp>’ configure
option, the default configuration file for a Unix system is located at
<code>/etc/avrdude/avrdude.conf</code>. This can be overridden by using the
‘<samp>-C</samp>’ command line option. Additionally, the user’s home directory
is searched for a file named <code>.avrduderc</code>, and if found, is used to
augment the system default configuration file.
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<h4 class="subsubsection">A.1.2.1 FreeBSD Configuration Files</h4>
<p>When AVRDUDE is installed using the FreeBSD ports system, the system
configuration file is always <code>/etc/avrdude/avrdude.conf</code>.
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<p>When AVRDUDE is installed using from an rpm package, the system
configuration file will be always be <code>/etc/avrdude/avrdude.conf</code>.
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<h3 class="subsection">A.1.3 Unix Port Names</h3>
<p>The parallel and serial port device file names are system specific.
The following table lists the default names for a given system.
</p>
<table>
<tr><td width="30%"><strong>System</strong></td><td width="30%"><strong>Default Parallel Port</strong></td><td width="30%"><strong>Default Serial Port</strong></td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">FreeBSD</td><td width="30%"><code>/dev/ppi0</code></td><td width="30%"><code>/dev/cuad0</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">Linux</td><td width="30%"><code>/dev/parport0</code></td><td width="30%"><code>/dev/ttyS0</code></td></tr>
<tr><td width="30%">Solaris</td><td width="30%"><code>/dev/printers/0</code></td><td width="30%"><code>/dev/term/a</code></td></tr>
</table>
<p>On FreeBSD systems, AVRDUDE uses the ppi(4) interface for
accessing the parallel port and the sio(4) driver for serial port
access.
</p>
<p>On Linux systems, AVRDUDE uses the ppdev interface for
accessing the parallel port and the tty driver for serial port
access.
</p>
<p>On Solaris systems, AVRDUDE uses the ecpp(7D) driver for
accessing the parallel port and the asy(7D) driver for serial port
access.
</p>
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<h3 class="subsection">A.1.4 Unix Documentation</h3>
<p>AVRDUDE installs a manual page as well as info, HTML and PDF
documentation. The manual page is installed in
<code>/usr/local/man/man1</code> area, while the HTML and PDF documentation
is installed in <code>/usr/local/share/doc/avrdude</code> directory. The
info manual is installed in <code>/usr/local/info/avrdude.info</code>.
</p>
<p>Note that these locations can be altered by various configure options
such as ‘<samp>--prefix</samp>’.
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