2. Installation

2.1 How to obtain PartImage

To obtain the last version of Partition Image, you can surf on the project home-page: http://www.partimage.org/. You can download the sources in tar.bz2 format, or in binary.

2.2 Requirements

Many libraries are required to compile/run Partition Image:

• libz gzip compression support
• libbz2 bzip2 compression support
• libnewt GUI (Graphical User Interface)
• libext2fs Ext2fs file system support
• libslang Required for newt
• libssl OpenSSL: encryption of data over the network
• libcrypt support for password

You can go on the download section of the home-page of Partition Image to have more details about these libraries: where to download them, and how to compile them.

Warning: If you want to compile partimage as a shared program, you need to have all the shared version of these libraries installed on your system. If you want to compile partimage as a static program, you need to have all the static version of these libraries installed on your system.

2.3 Compilation and installation

Different versions of Partition Image

There are 3 versions of Partition Image you can use:

• The source code you have to compile it, and it may be difficult, because it require many libraries
• The static binary this is very easy to use: this is an i386 executable binary, you just have to run it.
• The boot/root disks if you don't have an installed linux system, or if you want to work on your root linux partition
• The bootable eltorito cdrom you can run partimage from a bootable cdrom, where the image files are burned

All these versions can be downloaded from the web site. Here, we will explain how to compile the source code:

Compiling Partition Image sources

In order to compile and install PartImage on your system, type the following in the base directory of the PartImage distribution:

% ./configure
% make
% make install

After this, it you enabled SSL, you can install the needed certificate with

% make certificates

Since PartImage uses autoconf you should have not trouble compiling it. Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at François Dupoux