compiling-software.m4v
Channel: chaslinux
Date: 18/04/2012

A basic introduction to compiling software on Ubuntu Linux. What to do with those nasty .tar.gz, .tgz files. This video covers compiling "source code" in Ubuntu Linux, stepping through from untarring .tar.gz files to doing the make install. Briefly covers dependencies. Note: not all .tar.gz files are "source code" files, sometimes they're just a bunch of files compressed (e.g. you might compress a bunch of photos and documents together for a particular project). Typically something that's source code has a src/ sub-directory and files like configure.