INSTALL

Introduction
=============
giis-ext4 is designed to protect certain important directories/files on linux systems that 
are using the ext4 filesystem.

Dependencies
=============
The binary installation of giis-ext4 has only one dependency. This is:
	sqlite3

	Using Ubuntu this can be installed by running the command
		sudo apt-get install sqlite3

	Using Fedora this can be installed by running the command
		sudo yum install sqlite

The source installation of giis-ext4 also has very few dependencies. These are:
	pkg-config
	sqlite3
	libsqlite3-dev
	e2fslibs-dev
	
	Using Ubuntu these can be installed by running the command
		sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev e2fslibs-dev pkg-config

	Using Fedora this can be installed by running the command
		sudo yum install sqlite sqlite-devel pkgconfig e2fsprogs-devel e2fsprogs-libs

Installation general
=====================
Installation of giis-ext4 will need root privileges. You should follow these
steps for both binary and source installation.

Download the tar file into your home directory
	wget http://www.giis.co.in/giis/giis-ext4.tar

Extract the tar file into your home directory, which will create  a new 
directory called giis-ext4
	tar -xvf giis-ext4.tar

Change to the newly created directory
	cd giis-ext4


Installation of binary
=======================
These instructions follow on from Installation General. To install giis-ext4 
binary, run the following commands:

Ubuntu
	sudo sh install_giis_ext4.sh

Fedora
	su -
	sh install_giis_ext4.sh

This script will place the binary in /usr/bin and create the /usr/local/giis/
working directory structure and files.
	 
Installation from source
=========================
These instructions follow on from Installation General. To compile and install 
giis-ext4 from the source code, run the following commmands:

Method:1
========
cd src

Ubuntu
	sudo gcc `pkg-config --libs ext2fs sqlite3` giis-ext4.c -o giis-ext4 && mv giis-ext4 /usr/bin/
	
Fedora
	su
	gcc `pkg-config --libs ext2fs sqlite3` giis-ext4.c -o giis-ext4 && mv giis-ext4 /usr/bin/

Method:2
=======
	make
	mv giis-ext4 /usr/bin

This will compile giis-ext4 and move the newly created binary into /usr/bin/

giis-ext4 configuration
========================
Once you have succuessfully installed giis-ext4 from either the binary or source
code, you need to configure it.

Run the following command as root to configure which directories to protect, how
many levels of directory and how often to look for changes.

	giis-ext4 --install

Running giis-ext4 --help will give you more details.