LPI certification: Compiling Sources and Managing Libs

An anonymous reader writes "Welcome to Compiling sources and managing packages, the first of four tutorials designed to prepare you for the Linux Professional Institute's 102 (release 2) exam. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to compile programs from sources, how to manage shared libraries, and how to use the Red Hat and Debian package management systems."

Watch out!

[tickticker]

Registration required [ibm.com]

I don't use sigs

Re:Impressive

[Creepy Crawler]

It could get worse. It could be posted 3 times after this one.

Remember:

apt-get install SHIT
apt-cache search 'for shit'

WOW! i wrote a ibm quality article.

Hello, I'm Troy McClure...

[Tumbleweed]

You may remember me from such LPI training films as, "rm / -rf, the Silent Killer," and "shutdown -rn now: Express Elevator to Hell, System Going Down!"

Re:Hello, I'm Troy McClure...

[Crayon Kid]

shutdown -rn now: Express Elevator to Hell, System Going Down!

Actually, that would make a nice wall shutdown message... ...clickety click...

Re:Hello, I'm Troy McClure...

[Tumbleweed]

That would the just the 'Elevator to Hell', not the Express. The express gives no warning. :)

Compilation & Checkinstall

[neglige]

Although there a other opinions [freshmeat.net], I still manage to compile most programs with the simple

./configure
make
checkinstall [izto.org] make install

But, hey, this tutorial is free and certainly useful for new users (who don't know how to handle tar- or gzip/bzip2-files). I think the chapter on what problems may occur and how to solve them could be a bit longer than just one page...

BTW, I don't know why they skipped the part on how to edit the Makefile by hand. It's much more fun :) And while they are at it, they can add a section on how to analyse core dumps, too! (SCNR)

Re:Compilation & Checkinstall

[Gleng]

Wow! I just installed checkinstall thanks to your link. Before, I was making slackware packages the hard way, but this is the business :)

Thanks!

lpic notes on source forge

[oo_waratah]

For LPIC notes and intro notes to a linux course you could look at http://lcdp.sf.net [sf.net]. The cvs versions are being maintained reasonably actively and have been used for about 2 years in Granville TAFE, Sydney Australia.