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I'm very new to Linux and I was wondering, is there a very very newbie walkthrough for creating and installing a package. If so, could someone post it or write one out. I am generally trying to learn for the sake of learning and so I can install stuff manually.
Here is a linuxpackages howto: http://www.linuxpackages.net/howto.p...=Package+Howto
You could also look into checkinstall. I only seem to be able to find tutorials for making rpm's or deb's but I'm kinda tired so my searching skills right now are sub-par ;).
Post back if you have any problems.
So I downloaded firefox-2.0.0.3.tar.gz, and I was curious if you could walk me through an install. I'm assuming that the method that you will go through will work on all .tar.gz files.
you dont have to 'install' FireFox. right click on tar.gz file and select 'Extract here'. this will create a 'FireFox' folder. open Folder and look for file 'firefox' in it. double click on 'firefox' file. FireFox 2.0.0.3 window will pop up. create 'symlink' of 'firefox' file on Desktop or in Menu.
I assume you are wanting to know how to compile and install your packages. checkinstall works well for this and is found in /extra
Do a standard compile using the normal commands
./configure (assuming there is a configure included)
make
and instead of make install do checkinstall
This will create a Slackware package ready for installation.