An administrator must install a custom-compiled application on multiple servers that are managed by the distribution's package manager. They want to be able to upgrade and remove the application using standard package management commands. Which approach should they use?

Use make install with a custom prefix and copy the files manually.

Run make install and then create a tarball of the installed files.

Run checkinstall during the install step to create a .deb or .rpm package.

Use make install with DESTDIR to stage files, then move them into place.

A developer is building a legacy application that requires an older version of a library than the one installed on the system. The configure script detects the newer version and fails. The developer cannot modify the system's default library. Which approach should they take?

Downgrade the system library to the older version.

Use --with-library-version=old to force the older version.

Edit the configure script to skip the version check.

Install the older library in a separate prefix and use CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to point to it.

LPI LPIC-2:Linux Engineer (201-450)

Domain 7Objective 1

206.1 Make and Install Programs from Source (weight: 2) LPIC-2 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Part of the Topic 206: System Maintenance domain, which makes up ~8% of our current practice bank. Linux Professional Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 90-minute exam (~35–60 total, ~3–5 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 32 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

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Questions 1–5

1foundation · easy
Which command is used to place compiled binaries and libraries into the appropriate system directories?
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2foundation · easy
Which command is used to compile source code into executable binaries and libraries after the configure step has completed?
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3application · medium
An administrator must install a custom-compiled application on multiple servers that are managed by the distribution's package manager. They want to be able to upgrade and remove the application using standard package management commands. Which approach should they use?
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4expert · hard
A developer is building a legacy application that requires an older version of a library than the one installed on the system. The configure script detects the newer version and fails. The developer cannot modify the system's default library. Which approach should they take?
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5foundation · easy
Which tool is used to automate the compilation of source code by reading a Makefile and executing the necessary commands?
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206.1 Make and Install Programs from Source (weight: 2) LPIC-2 Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

Which command is used to place compiled binaries and libraries into the appropriate system directories?

Which command is used to compile source code into executable binaries and libraries after the configure step has completed?

An administrator must install a custom-compiled application on multiple servers that are managed by the distribution's package manager. They want to be able to upgrade and remove the application using standard package management commands. Which approach should they use?

A developer is building a legacy application that requires an older version of a library than the one installed on the system. The configure script detects the newer version and fails. The developer cannot modify the system's default library. Which approach should they take?

Which tool is used to automate the compilation of source code by reading a Makefile and executing the necessary commands?

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