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Description: Candidates should be able to build and install an executable program from source. This objective includes being able to unpack a file of sources.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Unpack source code using common compression and archive utilities
Understand basics of invoking make to compile programs
Apply parameters to a configure script
Know where sources are stored by default
Terms and Utilities:
/usr/src/
gunzip
gzip
bzip2
xz
tar
configure
make
uname
install
patch