Installing a driver in Linux ceases to be an extremely tricky and difficult process for many users. Since the moment when Linux becomes really user-friendly, a lot has changed in the system itself, and in particular in the installation of drivers. This article will talk about the main ways to install drivers on Linux.
It is necessary
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Instructions
Step 1
Every year Linux becomes more and more popular, and at the same time the system itself becomes simpler, more user-oriented. This, of course, affects the process of installing drivers.
In modern Linux distributions, this process is already automated, i.e. drivers are installed either "out of the box" (immediately after installation), or through special rpm (systems of the red-hat family), or deb (debian) packages. Moreover, some distributions (in particular, Ubuntu or Suse) provide for downloading and installing drivers directly from the package control panel. The package manager automatically downloads the required packages and then installs them. The only problem that can arise here is dependency packages, but the package manager handles this problem as well. The necessary packages can always be downloaded from the network, almost all Linux drivers are freely distributed. Another installation option is from sources. Typically, such drivers are supplied in tar.bz, tar.bz2, or tar.gz archive formats. This is a regular archive, always unpacked with a standard archiver. The archive usually contains installation instructions (the INSTALL file).
Step 2
For convenience, you can go to the directory with the unpacked program for compilation.
In terminal: cd path_to_directory_with_unpacked_program Example:
cd install / vim2.5 /
Step 3
Next, the configuration utility is launched to determine the system configuration and subsequent installation: sudo./configure
Step 4
This is followed directly by compilation and installation of the program.
Terminal: sudo make && sudo make install sudo make compilation itself sudo make install - installation
&& is a linking operator (two actions in one).
