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 create the command-line interface symbolic link that make it available in the execution path. In order to make the centos-art.sh command-line available in the execution path of your workstation, you need to run it using its absolute path first: ~/artwork/trunk/Scripts/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 had been provided. --answer-yes Assume yes to all confirmation requests. --packages This option verifies whether required packages need to be installed or updated. In both cases, the sudo yum command is used to perform such tasks. This configuration requires you to configure the sudo command first, as described in . --links This option creates/updates the symbolic links information required in your workstation to connect it with the files inside the working copy of &TCAR;. When you provide this option, the centos-art.sh put itself into your system's execution path and make brushes, patterns, palettes and fonts available inside applications like GIMP, so you can make use of them without loosing version control over them. --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 dependencies from 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 so you can read them nicely. --environment Print the name and value of some of the environment variables used by centos-art.sh scripts. As default behaviour, when no option is provided to prepare functionality, the centos-art.sh script excecutes as is it had been executed with the --packages, --links, --images and --manuals options. Otherwise, if you provide any option, the centos-art.sh script executes the prepare functionality as specified by the options. Notice that is possible for you to execute the prepare functionality as much 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 examples here seem to be pretty obvious once you've read both the synopsis section and the options supported by this functionality. Isn't it? Report bugs to &TCAML;. Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011 &TCAS;. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the . There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.