On 2015/05/03 19:49, Ken.Dickey wrote: > Perhaps src.tar.gz should follow the common pattern...
This would help this problem (which I've done myself before) but loses a valuable learning experience: never untar files to a system directory like this (or even your home directory, etc) if you haven't checked the contents. Say this file (which is probably downloaded over http without any authentication/verification) had src/ prefixes and you unpack in /usr. But somewhere tucked away in the middle of the file is a malicious lib/libc.so.* file that overwrites your real one and introduces a hole. That wouldn't be good... It's always safer to untar in a newly created or scratch directory.
