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Installing from source

Installing from source - Linux Tutorial

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Installing from source

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- [Voiceover] While their repositories offer a lot of tools, sometimes there's software that's not available there or sometimes you may want to use a different version than what's offered. Or perhaps you've made a change to some open sourced software and want to try it out. There are a few ways of going from source code to a running binary, and while many times you'll find yourself compiling a program in an IDE, you can also download the source code then build it with a standard tool chain at the command prompt. In this video, we'll take a look at doing that with the make software, which is a build automation tool that allows us to compile source code on different platforms automatically without having to hard code a lot of things that would break in different environments. The make software reads a file called a Makefile, which is usually prepared for it by another script called configure. Configure explores the local environment, and sets up the makefile with variables and other…

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