# $Id: INSTALL,v 1.3.2.2 2003/04/12 18:26:10 daveewart Exp $

PREREQUISITES

To use colordiff, you need Perl and an ANSI-colour enabled terminal.  To
install as per the instructions below, you also need GNU Make.

INSTALLATION

1. (Optional) Edit the Makefile to change the preferred installation
locations - default is /usr/local/bin for the script itself, and /etc
for the central colour configuration file.

2. As root, type 'make install'.  If 'make' is unavailable, simply copy
colordiff.pl to /usr/local/bin and colordiffrc to /etc by hand.

3. The central colour configuration file, by default /etc/colordiffrc is
read by each instance of the script.  User-specific settings can be
enabled by copying this file to ~/.colordiffrc and making the
appropriate changes.

Note that by default, colordiff is configured to work in an environment
where the default background is generally 'dark'.  If you are using a
light-coloured background, the default colours in colordiffrc won't work
very well - in that case, manually copy the file colordiffrc-lightbg to
either /etc/colordiffrc or ~/.colordiffrc as appropriate.

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