A question on installing *.tar.gz package

[satimis]

Hi folks,

Fedora 12 64bit

Is there an easy and reliable way to install *.tar.gz package after extraction? Instead of going through ./configure etc.

TIA

B.R.
satimis

[coopstah13]

create your own RPM build

other than that, no

[Irithori]

Sure there is.
That´s what RPM, deb, etc packages are for

Ok, seriously.
Package maintainers do roughly this:
- check licences, need for the package etc
- download the source as tar.gz, from cvs/subversion/git/whatever
- write specfiles for RPMs or the like
- apply patches or additional files if neccessary
- compile. That is basically: "configure, make, make install"
- the compiled files are in a package
- the packages go to a repository

Creating own packages, if you for example need a newer version, can be a bit tedious, but you more or less have to do it only once.
For future versions, existing spec files can be reused.