Bart Dorlandt - BAMweb.nl

I upgrade my OpenBSD to version 4.2 and installed the new unison package. This is now version 2.17.1. Unfortunately Ubuntu 7.10 still uses the older one (2.13). So I had to upgrade by hand. This is how to do it:

• Download the linux version 2.17.1 from the mainpage of unison.
• Install this packages: ocaml-nox (sudo apt-get install ocaml-nox)
• then do these next few make steps: (don't mind warnings even if it says you need etags. You don't need it)
  • make configure
  • make
  • make opt
  • make install #(you need sudo or root for this)
• It will try to copy 2 files to /root/bin. If you don't have this directory it will result in an error. You may just copy the file "unison" to /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin. This will make it globally available.

Good luck.