On 08/28/2010 09:16 PM, rrloria wrote:
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Joseph Apuzzo <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
The PPA has version 3.2.6, so I just got the source instead...
building now:
svn co http://www.virtualbox.org/svn/vbox/trunk vbox
Note: the best skill you can develop on Linux is to lose the fear of
building from source
I'm new to Linux and I've never done it using Ubuntu.
Would building from source code be worth having as a meeting
presentation topic?
-rr
Linux from scratch is a tutorial which shows how to build your own
custom distribution from source.
Its a great way to learn the internals of linux.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/index.html
I did this back in 2000 so I think the tutorial must have improved
dramatically. Back then I had some problems finding source for some
important packages and had problems compiling some stuff like Sane
(scanner software). Based on this experience, I don't really recommend
doing this to use as your every day linux desktop because software might
brake.
I had a lots of fun doing it though :o)
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