Libraries

Installation from packages

• Install a development package *-dev, which includes header files and static libraries. Base packages will be installed automatically
• Headers and libraries can be found in standard paths, which are searched by compilers by default

Manual installation

• Download a package or export/checkout a repository to $HOME/src/DIR
• Configure with --prefix=$HOME
• Update Linux run-time environment

PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

• Update Linux compile-time environment (for Autotools and C/C++)

CPATH=$HOME/include:$CPATH
LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH