Hour 8 Unix Package Management
In the world of personal computers, if you want to add a software package to your system, you buy it (or download it, perhaps) and run an installer program that does lots of behind-the-scenes magic and eventually pops up with an ″installed!″ message. What it did, and indeed what you have installed on your system, can be a mystery.
Rising from more egalitarian roots, the Unix system for many years was saddled with packages that were distributed as source code along with very complex instructions on how to build and install the program when (alright, if!) it compiled.
Over the last half dozen years, however, Unix ...
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