untar & install a program

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I feel so daft, I have forgotten how to untar & install a program.

I am a mewbie and have had problems with Mandrake 9.1, having installed it 10 times due to various things, I think I have at last got a good install.

Anyway, I got a kpassword.tar.gz password program that I would like to install.

Please, what are the commands. I have put the file in my home directory.

In the readme it says, I tried all this, but get errors, no directory or command.
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1. INSTALLATION

Just running

$QTDIR/bin/qmake -project "CONFIG += qt warn_on release thread"
$QTDIR/bin/qmake
make

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May I thank you in advance, your help is very greatly appreciated.

[bmxface]

.tar.gz means its zipped. you need to extract it. try right clicking on it then have it "extract here"

[steveb]

try
gunzip filename.tar.gz
tar xvf filename.tar

go to directory created from the tar xvf command and do
configue
make install
install
make clean

the above should do it

[Dillinger]

You can skip the gunzip step by doing tar -xzvf filename.

[Dolda2000]

Note also that you will have to do ./configure unless you have added . to your PATH.

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brilliant, great,
thanks a lot.

[questionasker]

yes.