
Prerequisites
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Fish requires the following packages to build:

 - Doxygen
 - Curses or Ncurses

fish also relies on standard unix tools such as cat, cut, grep, sed,
whoami and echo. Fish does not support cross-compilation, separate
build directories or any other fancy configure options.

Simple install procedure
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 % ./configure
 % make                                  #Compile fish
 % make install                          #Install fish
 % echo /usr/local/bin/fish >>/etc/shells #Add fish to list of shells

If you wish to use fish as your default shell, use the following
command:

 % chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish			 

chsh will prompt you for your password, and change your default shell.


Local install procedure
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To install fish in your own home directory (typically as non-root),
type:

 % ./configure
 % make           #Compile fish
 % make linstall  #Install fish

You will not be able to use fish as the default shell unless you also
add the corresponding line to /etc/shells, which kind of defeats the
point of a local install. But you can at least build and run fish.

