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===Investigation 3: How do you build software from source code?===
Now that you know how to create and decompress "zipped tarball archives", we will demonstrate how to install applications from websites containing these types of archives. Although this method is not as "user-friendly" as using the yum or rpm command, this method is useful if the application is NOT contained in regular software repositories...
{{Admon/note|Use fedora2|Perform these steps in the '''fedora2''' virtual machine.}}