[FEDORA-LIST] Installing software from source?

From: Dan Bikle (dan.bikle_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/27/05

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    People,

    I was just handed the root password to my server running Linux whitebox 4.

    I'm not much of a SysAdmin but I'm handy at running shell commands
    and operating vi.

    I'd like to get skilled at installing software from source.

    Typically what I've done in the past is download a .tgz,
    tar zxf,
    confifigure --prefix /opt/local,
    make
    make install

    On my Mac though,
    I've found a utility-website (http://darwinports.org/) which wraps the
    above sequence
    with a nice command called 'port'.

    The way port works is that I search for things I want to install
    with a command like:
    port search perl

    which gives me this:

    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root# port search perl
    subversion-perlbindings devel/subversion-perlbindings 1.2.3 Perl
    bindings for the subversion version control system.
    perl5.8 lang/perl5.8 5.8.7 Perl 5.8.x - Practical
    Extraction and Report Language
    p5-gtk-perl perl/p5-gtk-perl 0.7009 Bindings to Gtk+ library
    p5-libintl-perl perl/p5-libintl-perl 1.14 Perl
    internationalization library
    p5-libwww-perl perl/p5-libwww-perl 5.803 The World-Wide Web
    library for Perl
    p5-libxml-perl perl/p5-libxml-perl 0.08 Collection of Perl
    modules for working with XML.
    p5-log-log4perl perl/p5-log-log4perl 1.00 Log4j implementation for Perl
    p5-perl-ldap perl/p5-perl-ldap 0.33 A client interface to
    LDAP servers
    p5-perl-tidy perl/p5-perl-tidy 20031021 Parses and beautifies
    perl source
    p5-perlio-eol perl/p5-perlio-eol 0.13 This is a Perl
    extension for normalizing line endings (used by svk).
    p5-perlio-via-dynamic perl/p5-perlio-via-dynamic 0.11 This is
    a Perl extension for dynamic perlIO layers (used by svk).
    p5-perlio-via-symlink perl/p5-perlio-via-symlink 0.02 This is
    a PerlIO layer for creating symlinks (used by svk).
    libapreq-perl www/libapreq-perl 1.1 Perl Libraries for
    Apache::Request and Apache::Cookie
    mod_perl www/mod_perl 1.29 Embeds a Perl interpreter in
    the Apache 1.3 server
    mod_perl2 www/mod_perl2 2.0.1 Embeds a Perl interpreter in
    the Apache2 server
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#

    Then, I install perl with a command like this:

    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root# port install perl5.8
    ---> Fetching perl5.8
    ---> Attempting to fetch perl-5.8.7.tar.bz2 from http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/
    ---> Verifying checksum(s) for perl5.8
    ---> Extracting perl5.8
    ---> Applying patches to perl5.8
    ---> Configuring perl5.8
    ---> Building perl5.8 with target all
    ---> Staging perl5.8 into destroot
    ---> Packaging tgz archive for perl5.8 5.8.7_0
    ---> Installing perl5.8 5.8.7_0
    ---> Activating perl5.8 5.8.7_0
    ---> Cleaning perl5.8
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#
    zmac11:/Users/oracle root#

    So, does Linux have anything like this 'port' utility?

    -Dan 

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