Hi, I'm a little confused as to how to install the precompiled ccrypt command. Not sure what the symlinks are for or where they get placed. Can someone clarify this for a guy with no unix experience.
Downloading and Installing
The current version of ccrypt can be downloaded as a gzipped tar archive from
http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/. You can unpack the archive with a command such as tar -zxf ccrypt-XXX.tar.gz
For compiling and installation, please follow the instructions in the file INSTALL. ccrypt is also available in precompiled formats for a number of popular platforms, including Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Sun Solaris, AIX, and Windows under CygWin. In each case, just install the binaries in one of the places where the operating system usually looks for them, such as /usr/local/bin. You should also create symbolic links to the ccrypt binary named ccencrypt, ccdecrypt, and ccat; when ccrypt is invoked by one of these names, its default behavior changes. To create the appropriate links, change to the directory where you have installed ccrypt, and run the commands
ln -s ccrypt ccencrypt
ln -s ccrypt ccdecrypt
ln -s ccrypt ccat
You may also want to install the man page by copying ccrypt.1 to an
appropriate directory, such as /usr/local/man/man1.
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