s6
Software
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How to install s6

Like any other piece of software (and information generally), s6 comes with NO WARRANTY.

s6 is available under the terms of the ISC license, see the included package/COPYING file.

Requirements

System

A Unix-like system

Build-time

A standard C development environment
The skalibs package, version 1.4.2 or higher
The execline package, version 1.2.4 or higher

Run-time

Depending on the way you compile and link s6:

No dependencies (static executables)
or a standard C run-time environment (dynamic executables with flag-allstatic)
or a standard C run-time environment, the execline package, version 1.2.4 or higher, and the skalibs package, version 1.4.2 or higher (dynamic executables without flag-allstatic)

Installation

s6 is best used with the slashpackage convention, but it is not a hard requirement.

Create a /package directory:
```
     mkdir -p /package
     chmod 1755 /package
     cd /package
```
(If you are not following the slashpackage convention, you can use any temporary build directory instead.)
Download the latest version of s6, s6-1.1.1.tar.gz, into /package.

Unpack the s6 package:

     tar -zxpvf s6-1.1.1.tar.gz
     # if you do not have GNU tar, check with your gunzip and tar manual pages.
     rm s6-1.1.1.tar.gz
     cd admin/s6-1.1.1

Configure the package by editing the files in conf-compile/ following these instructions. The s6 package also supports this list of flags.
Compile and set up s6:
```
     make
     sudo make install
```
The compilation and installation processes are detailed here.
To save disk space:
```
     make clean
```