make The make command compiled the source code into a real executable. The terminal filled with magical scrolling text — no errors meant success.
In the land of Linux, software often arrived not as a simple package, but as a — first tar (the tape archiver), then xz (the powerful squeezer).
For many travelers, you must ask your system for directions:
cd app-3.2 Inside, Alex found strange runes: README , INSTALL , configure , Makefile ...