From the course: Linux: Package Managers and Repositories
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Installing from source - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux: Package Managers and Repositories
Installing from source
- [Instructor] While the repositories offer a lot of tools, sometimes there's software that isn't included in them. Or sometimes you may want to use a different version than what's offered. Or perhaps you've made a change to some open-source 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 build and compile a program in an IDE, you can also download the source for software and build it with the 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 let's us compile source code on different platforms automatically without having to hard code a lot of things that would break in different environments. The 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 values…
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The RPM and YUM package managers2m 42s
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Searching for a package2m 52s
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Downloading a package file3m 39s
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Finding package information3m 41s
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Explore package dependencies1m 27s
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Installing a package2m 37s
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Checking what software is installed3m 15s
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Installing groups of packages4m 53s
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Removing a package55s
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Upgrading a package4m 7s
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Installing from source5m 9s
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Managing YUM repositories1m 21s
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