Marcel’s Extract and Build.
tar -xzvf ftl-travel-2.1.tar.gz
cd ftl-travel-2.1
./configure
make
su -c “make install”
Does this piece of text seem familiar, but scary at the same time? If so, you might want to check out Marcel Gagne’s ‘The Extract and Build Five-Step”.
Sometimes there’s no package available for an application we want to use, or the latest package available isn’t the latest version of the application. When that happens, we may have to resort to compiling and installing the application ourselves.
In show #4, I covered off how to find and install applications, but Marcel does a much better job of explaining the extract and build that I did.
Enjoy!