Building and Installing Software Packages for Linux

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Building and Installing Software Packages for Linux

Mendel Cooper --- http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/

v1.91, 27 July 1999

This is a comprehensive guide to building and installing "generic" UNIX software distributions under Linux. Additionally, there is some coverage of "rpm" and "deb" pre-packaged binaries.

5. Termcap and Terminfo Issues

6. Backward Compatibility With a.out Binaries

6.1 An Example

10. Second Example: Xloadimage

14. Where to Find Source Archives

16. References and Further Reading

Claws Mail 3.7.2
Email client (and news reader), based on GTK+
Samba 3.4.0
Provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients
Amaya 11.2
Complete web browsing and authoring environment
Linux Kernel 2.6 2.6.30.1
Linux Kernel
Scintilla 1.79
Free source code editing component
Sawfish 1.5.0
An extensible window manager
ImageMagick 6.5.4.2
ImageMagick image processing studio
Wine 1.1.25
Free implementation of Windows on Unix
GEdit 2.26.3
Small but powerful text editor
WebGUI 7.7.13
A fully featured content management system.

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