Installing from Source Code
Before package management systems and application containers, open source application developers had to distribute their software as source code and allow users to compile the applications on their own systems. Source code packages were commonly released as a tarball. The tarball package uses the tar command to archive multiple files into a single file (either with or without compression).
If you develop or work with open source software source code much, there’s a good chance you will still find software packed up as a tarball. This section walks you through the process of unpacking and installing a tarball software package.
For this example, the software package sysstat will be used. The sysstat utility is a very ...
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