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=== Tasks ===
{{Admon/caution|Do not build or install this software as the rootuser.|Do not build the software as root, and do not install the software into the system directories. Doing so may cause conflicts with other software on the system and/or may leave your system in an unusable state, and may be very difficult to reverse.}}
# Select a software package from the [[http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html Free Software Foundation's GNU Project]].# Build the software. You may need to install build dependencies (e.g., compilers, tools, and libraries); you can do this (and only this) as the root user.
# Test that it works.
# Select a second, open source software package that has a different license, and repeat the process with that software.
# Blog about the process, your results, your observations, and what you learned.