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# Installing Sed-4.0.9

    Approximate build time:  0.2 SBU
    Required disk space:     5.2 MB

Official download location for Sed (4.0.9):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/

For its installation Sed depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Texinfo.

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## Installation of Sed

Prepare Sed for compilation:

    ./configure --prefix=/tools

Compile the program:

    make

As discussed earlier, we don't recommend running the test suites for the temporary tools here in this chapter. If you still want to run the Sed test suite anyway, the following command will do so:

    make check

Then install it and its documentation:

    make install

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The details on this package are found in the Section called Contents of Sed in Chapter 6.

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