Question

In this hands-on project, you compile and install a program from source code.

1. On your Fedora Linux virtual machine, switch to a graphical terminal (tty1) by pressingCtrl+Alt+F1 and log in to the GNOME desktop using the user name of user1 and the password of LNXrocks!.

2. Open the Firefox Web browser and download the source code tarball for rdesktop 1.8.2 (rdesktop-1.8.2.tar.gz) from www.rdesktop.org. Save the source code tarball to the default location (/home/user1/Downloads) and log out of the GNOME desktop when finished.

3. Next, switch to a command-line terminal (tty2) by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 and log in to the terminal using the user name of root and the password of LNXrocks!.

4. At the command prompt, type yum groupinstall “Development Tools” and press Enter to install the compiler tools from a software repository.

5. At the command prompt, type yum install libX11-devel openssl-devel and press Enter to install the X11 and OpenSSL development libraries from a software repository.

6. At the command prompt, type cp ~user1/Downloads/rdesktop-1.8.2.tar.gz ~ and press Enter to copy the rdesktop source code tarball to your home directory.

7. At the command prompt, type tar –zxvf rdesktop-1.8.2.tar.gz and pressEnter to uncompress and extract the contents of the tarball. Next, type ls -F at the command prompt and press Enter. What directory was created?

8. At the command prompt, type cd rdesktop-1.8.2 and press Enter. Next, type ls - F at the command prompt and press Enter. Is there an executable configure program? Are there README and INSTALL files present?

9. At the command prompt, type ./configure - -disablecredssp - -disable- 11smartcard and press Enter to run the configure script without configuring for credssp
   and smartcard support. What does this program do? Near the bottom of the output,
   can you see whether the Makefile was created successfully?

10. At the command prompt, type make and press Enter. What does the make program do? Which program compiles the different parts of the program?

11. At the command prompt, type make install and press Enter. What does the make install command do?

12. At the command prompt, type cd and press Enter to return to your home directory. Next, type rm –Rf rdesktop-1.8.2 to remove the source code directory for rdesktop.

13. At the command prompt, type which rdesktop and press Enter. Which directory con- tains the rdesktop executable program? Is a central database updated with this information?

14. At the command prompt, type man rdesktop and press Enter. View the available options for the rdesktop command and press q to quit when finished.

15. Type exit and press Enter to log out of your shell.

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