Time for action – installing Squid

The successful compilation of the source code in the previous section will generate the required programs depending on the features and packages we have enabled or disabled. However, they should be moved to their designated locations, so that they can be used. Let's perform the final steps of the installation.

  1. Depending on the ${prefix}, we may need root or super user privileges for installing Squid. If root or super user privileges are needed, we should first switch to root or super user by using the following command:
    su
  2. Now all we need to do is to run the make command with install as the argument:
    make install

    This will install or simply move programs to their designated locations, depending on the path used ...

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