On Sunday 15 August 2004 11:24 pm, BJ Tracy wrote: > A couple of NEWBIE questions: > 1) When you download a program such as clamav, where should you down load > to? A temp file in the usr file?
You might want to create a default directory for all downloads and set your apps, browsers, etc. to download there by default. That way, you keep everything in one place. Usually, some place in /home unless you want to have them in a shared location. > > 2) After extracting the files form the tar, and you do a 'make' and a > 'make install' , , , , , does Linux know where to put the program files? > Just a little confused. Make essentially uses a Makefile to build, compile the binary from source. Make install runs an installation routine that copies the files to the locations specified in the Makefile. If you are interested, you can actually go through the Makefile to get a complete idea about what it is doing. They are not however, designed for ease of understanding. -- Bryan Phinney
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