make The make command compiled the source code into a real executable. The terminal filled with magical scrolling text — no errors meant success.
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). linux install tar.xz
cd app-3.2 Inside, Alex found strange runes: README , INSTALL , configure , Makefile ... make The make command compiled the source code
One day, a young admin named Alex downloaded app-3.2.tar.xz . Alex found strange runes: README
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