[Gllug] How to do a 'make install'

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Tue Mar 11 10:27:49 UTC 2003


And verily, didst Eric Lee announce to the hordes:
> OK, I admit -- I have no idea what 'make' does and can't find much in
> the way of explanation in my various Linux books.
> 
> Anyone have any idea what to do?

Simple. 
Untar. cd to directory you just untarred. type "make install"
Make then reads the "Makefile", which tells it what to do with all the
files. (Make can do just about anything, not just compile)

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