Part III. Advanced Uses
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Advanced Uses
Table of Contents
12.
Building and Installing Free Software
Introduction
Requirements
Compilation
Structure of a distribution
Decompression
A tar.gz archive
The use of GNU Tar
Bzip2
Just do it!
Configuration
Autoconf
Imake
Various shell scripts
Alternatives
Compilation
Make
Rules
Go, go, go!
Explanations
What if... it does not work?
Installation
With Make
Problems
Support
Documentation
Technical support
How to find free software
Acknowledgments
13.
Compiling And Installing New Kernels
Where to Find Kernel Sources
Unpacking Sources, Patching The Kernel (if Necessary)
Configuring The Kernel
Saving, Reusing Your Kernel Configuration Files
Compiling Kernel And Modules, Installing The Beast
Installing The New Kernel Manually
Updating LILO
Updating Grub