Installing fdupes -------------------------------------------------------------------- To build and install the program, issue the following commands: ./configure make sudo make install Starting with fdupes 2.0.0, a full-featured installation requires the following libraries to be installed on your system: - ncursesw (ncurses with support for wide characters) - PCRE2 (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library) Source code for these libraries is available at: https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ https://www.pcre.org/ If these libraries are not available on your system or you want to build fdupes without them, you may instead call configure as: ./configure --without-ncurses followed by "make" and "sudo make install" as before. Please note that compiling fdupes without these libraries will disable the new screen-mode interface for choosing which files to keep or delete. Without them, fdupes will use an interface like the one used in previous versions. The commands above will build and install fdupes and its documentation under /usr/local by default. You may change the install location using: ./configure --prefix=/your/chosen/path followed by "make" and "sudo make install" as before. A test directory is included so that you may familiarise yourself with the way fdupes operates. You may test the program before installing it by issuing a command such as "./fdupes testdir" or "./fdupes -r testdir", just to name a couple of examples. Refer to the documentation for information on valid options.