Chapter 6
Building and Installing Software
This chapter covers the following topics:
The exam objective covered in this chapter is as follows:
Objective 1.6: Given a scenario, build and install software
Linux systems are made up of a lot of software, all organized packages, which are collections of software code, directories, files, supporting files, and often precompiled binaries of those applications.
Packages are the top-level manifestation of the software world. They are constructed to make distribution, installation, removal, updating, and other administrative tasks easier and less prone to errors and conflicts.
A Linux system is meant to be useful, such as serving as some kind ...
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