The prepare functionality is the interface the centos-art.sh script provides to standardize the final configuration stuff your workstation needs, once the working copy of &TCAR; has been downloaded inside it already. Assuming this is the very first time you run the centos-art.sh script, you'll find that it isn't found in your workstation. This is correct because you haven't created the symbolic link that make it available in the execution path, yet. In order to make the centos-art.sh script available in the execution path of your workstation, you need to run it using its absolute path first: ~/artwork/trunk/Scripts/Bash/centos-art.sh prepare [OPTIONS] Later, once the centos-art.sh script is available in the execution path of your system, there is no need for you to use the absolute path again. From this time on, you can use the centos-art command-line interface directly, as the following example describes: centos-art prepare [OPTIONS] The prepare functionality accepts the following options: --quiet Supress all output messages except error messages. When this option is passed, all confirmation requests are supressed and a possitive answer is assumed for them, just as if the --answer-yes option whould have been provided. --answer-yes Assume yes to all confirmation requests. --packages This option verifies packeges required by centos-art.sh script. installs or updates required packages. When required packages aren't installed, this option uses sudo yum install command to perform the installation task. When required packages are installed, this option uses sudo yum update to update them, if there is any related actualization to be applied on. In both cases, it is required that you configure the /etc/sudoers configuration file first, as discribed in . --locales This option creates or updates the machine object (MO) file used by gettext to retrive translated strings when centos-art.sh script is running. This option is a call to the --update option of locale functionality, as described in . --links This option maintains the file relation between your working copy and configuration files inside your workstation through symbolic links. When you provide this option, the centos-art.sh puts itself into your system's execution path through its command line interface centos-art and makes common brushes, patterns, palettes and fonts inside the working copy, available to applications like GIMP in order for you to make use of them without loosing version control over them. This option removes all common fonts, brushes, patterns, and palettes currently installed in your home directory, in order to create a fresh installation of them all again, using the working copy as reference. --images This option initializes image files inside the working copy. When you provide this option, the centos-art.sh scripts renders image files from all design models available in the working copy. This step is required in order to satisfy file dependencies among different components inside the working copy. --manuals This option initializes documentation files inside the working copy. When you provide this option, the centos-art.sh script renders all documentation manuals from their related source files to different output formats, so you can read them nicely. --see-environment Print the name and value of some of the environment variables used by centos-art.sh scripts as described in . --set-environment Set default environment values to your personal profile (~/.bash_profile). When no option is provided to prepare functionality, the centos-art.sh script uses the --set-environment, --packages, --locales --links, --images and --manuals options as default behaviour. Otherwise, if you provide any option, the centos-art.sh script avoids its default behaviour and executes the prepare functionality as specified by the options you provides. Notice that it is possible for you to execute the prepare functionality as many times as you need to. This is specially useful when you need to keep syncronized the relation between content produced inside your working copy and the applications you use outside it. For example, considering you've added new brushes to or removed old brushes from your working copy of &TCAR;, the link information related to those files need to be updated in the ~/.gimp-2.2/brushes directory too, in a way the addition/deletion change that took place in your working copy can be reflected there, as well. The same is true for other similar components like fonts, patterns and palettes. ... The following people have worked in the prepare functionality: Alain Reguera Delgado <alain.reguera@gmail.com> Copyright (C) 2009-2012 The CentOS Project This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.