The prepare functionality is the interface the centos-art.sh script provides to standardize the content production tasks inside the working copy. Assuming this is the very first time you run the centos-art command, you'll find that there isn't such a command in your workstation. This is correct because you haven't created the symbolic link that makes it available in your execution path, yet. In order to make the centos-art command available in the execution path of your workstation, you need to run the centos-art.sh script using its absolute path first: ~/artwork/trunk/Scripts/Bash/centos-art.sh prepare [OPTIONS] Later, once the centos-art command is available in your execution path, there is no need for you to use any absolute path again. From this time on, you can use the centos-art command-line interface directly, as the following example describes: centos-env prepare [OPTIONS] When the centos-art command is executed with the prepare functionality, it 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 automation scripts and installs or updates them as required. When required packages aren't installed or need to be updated, the centos-art uses the sudo and yum to perform either installations or actualizations tasks. 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 portable objects (PO) and machine object (MO) used by gettext to retrive translated strings related to centos-art.sh script. This option calls the locale functionality of centos-art.sh with the --update option, 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 script 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 calls the render functionality to create images related to each design model available in your working copy, as described in . --manuals This option initializes documentation files inside the working copy. When you provide this option, the centos-art.sh script calls both the render and help functionality to produce DocBook and Texinfo manuals, respectively. --see-environment Print the name and value of some of the environment variables used by centos-art.sh script 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, in that order, 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 provided. 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_YEAR_LIST= Copyright © =COPYRIGHT_YEAR_LIST= 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.