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<a href="setup.html">Setup</a>
<a href="30second.html">30-second Tutorial</a>
<a href="simple.html">Simple</a>
<a href="advanced.html">Advanced</a>
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<h2 class="title"><a name="setup">Quick Setup</a></h2>
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<p>
Build the task program according to the directions in the INSTALL
file. This transcript illustrates a typical installation:
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<pre><code>% ls
task-1.6.0.tar.gz
% gunzip task-1.6.0.tar.gz
% tar xf task-1.6.0.tar
% cd task-1.6.0
% ./configure
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% make
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% make install # (may require sudo, depending on --prefix)</code></pre>
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(For those of you using <a href="http://www.cygwin.com">Cygwin</a>,
you need to make sure you have the "gcc" and "make" packages
available, which are found in the "devel" category. For more
task features, also make sure you have "libncurses-devel" and
"lincurse8".)
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You need to make sure that the installed task program is in your
PATH environment variable.
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Task reads a configuration file - called .taskrc in your home
directory - and stores pending and completed tasks in in a directory
specified in the configuration file.
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The simplest way to get a configuration file and task directory is
to run task. On startup, task will check to see if it can find the
configuration file and task directory, and if not found, will ask
you whether it may create both.
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<pre><code>% task version
A configuration file could not be found in /Users/paul/.taskrc
Would you like a sample .taskrc created, so task can proceed? (y/n) y
Done.
[then task will show version information]</code></pre>
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Copyright 2006-2009, P. Beckingham. All rights reserved.
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