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LPI certification: Compiling Sources and Managing Libs

Posted by Hemos on from the learn-how-to-do-it dept.

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."

13 comments

  1. Watch out! by tickticker · · Score: 2, Informative
    Registration required

    I don't use sigs

  2. Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Didn't Apple buy them?

  3. Impressive by __past__ · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Good thing that there is finally a tutorial explaining this highly obscure part of advanced Linux administration. This is really good news for all us nerds, and surely matters a lot.

    I mean, come on, has someone hacked hemos' account and uses it to destroy the /. community by boring it to death? What will the next story be, "GNU Hurd still not production ready"?

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    1. Re:Impressive by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      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.

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    2. Re:Impressive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      IBM has already contracted me to write the next article called "the secrets of the cp command".

    3. Re:Impressive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I would like to see some articles about actual development in the Developers section.

  4. cut them some slack by LittleBigLui · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This article was probably written by SCO in an attempt to destroy IBMs public image.

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  5. Hello, I'm Troy McClure... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!"

    1. Re:Hello, I'm Troy McClure... by Crayon+Kid · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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

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    2. Re:Hello, I'm Troy McClure... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 2, Insightful

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

  6. Compilation & Checkinstall by neglige · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Although there a other opinions, I still manage to compile most programs with the simple

    ./configure
    make
    checkinstall 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)

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    1. Re:Compilation & Checkinstall by Gleng · · Score: 1

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

      Thanks!

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  7. lpic notes on source forge by oo_waratah · · Score: 3, Informative

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