Building and Installing Software Packages for Linux

Mendel Cooper --- http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/

v1.91, 27 July 1999

This is a comprehensive guide to building and installing "generic" UNIX software distributions under Linux. Additionally, there is some coverage of "rpm" and "deb" pre-packaged binaries.

5. Termcap and Terminfo Issues

6. Backward Compatibility With a.out Binaries

6.1 An Example

10. Second Example: Xloadimage

14. Where to Find Source Archives

16. References and Further Reading

17. Credits

Next Previous Contents

Random Linux Commands

Init
Init is the first program that the kernel runs. It cycles through a series of scripts to start various processes running on your machine. Every process on the machine is given a unique process number, and the process number of init is 1.

Common Linux terms

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Building and Installing Software Packages for Linux

Mendel Cooper --- http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/

1. Introduction

2. Unpacking the Files

3. Using Make

4. Prepackaged Binaries

5. Termcap and Terminfo Issues

6. Backward Compatibility With a.out Binaries

7. Troubleshooting

8. Final Steps

9. First Example: Xscrabble

10. Second Example: Xloadimage

11. Third Example: Fortune

12. Fourth Example: Hearts

13. Fifth Example: XmDipmon

14. Where to Find Source Archives

15. Final Words

16. References and Further Reading

17. Credits