sudo make install With great power, Alex placed the program into the system directories so all users could call its name from anywhere.
For many travelers, you must ask your system for directions: linux install tar.xz
Some modern .tar.xz files are pre-compiled (binaries). In that case, after extraction, the program was already inside — just run ./program_name or copy it to /usr/local/bin/ . But for source code, the five steps lived forever: unpack, enter, configure, make, install . sudo make install With great power, Alex placed
One day, a young admin named Alex downloaded app-3.2.tar.xz . But for source code, the five steps lived
Alex opened a terminal and whispered the ancient incantation:
In the land of Linux, software often arrived not as a simple package, but as a — first tar (the tape archiver), then xz (the powerful squeezer).
cd app-3.2 Inside, Alex found strange runes: README , INSTALL , configure , Makefile ...