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<TITLE>Building and Installing Software Packages for Linux: Introduction</TITLE>
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<LINK HREF="Software-Building-HOWTO-2.html" REL=next>
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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A></H2>
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<P>Many software packages for the various flavors of UNIX and Linux come as
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compressed archives of source files. The same package may be "built"
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to run on different target machines, and this saves the author of the
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software from having to produce multiple versions. A single distribution
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of a software package may thus end up running, in various incarnations,
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on an Intel box, a DEC Alpha, a RISC workstation, or even a mainframe.
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Unfortunately, this puts the responsibility of actually "building"
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and installing the software on the end user, the de facto "system
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administrator", the fellow sitting at the keyboard -- you. Take heart,
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though, the process is not nearly as terrifying or mysterious as it seems,
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as this guide will demonstrate.
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