How to Install tar.gz Files

11-22-2005	#1 (permalink)
beachboy Linux Newbie Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Rockford, MI 49341 Posts: 125	How to Install tar.gz Files How do you Install tar.gz Files in suse9.3? __________________ <advertising NOT allowed in signatures>

11-22-2005	#2 (permalink)
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11-22-2005	#3 (permalink)
spencerf Linux Engineer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Syracuse, NY Posts: 1,144	as root Code: tar -zxvf nameof.tar.gz this command above is the equivalent of unzip in windows (it uncompresses an archive) then usually (but always read INSTALL file or README etc) Code: ./configure make make install you usually can do configure and make as a regular user and make install as root. But these are very generic questions and the INSTALL file or whatever it is called in each particular case will give detailed instructions and if you still don't know then ask. __________________ All right, brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer. All New Users Read This!!! If you have a grub problem please look at GRUB MANUAL

11-23-2005

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beachboy

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Join Date: Apr 2005

Location: Rockford, MI 49341

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Quote:

Originally Posted by spencerf

as root

Code:

tar -zxvf nameof.tar.gz

this command above is the equivalent of unzip in windows (it uncompresses an archive)

then usually (but always read INSTALL file or README etc)

Code:

./configure
make
make install

you usually can do configure and make as a regular user and make install as root. But these are very generic questions and the INSTALL file or whatever it is called in each particular case will give detailed instructions and if you still don't know then ask.

Thank You that worked great

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miltaij Just Joined! Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1	what is "./configure"?? and what is "make" command? why when i type it, it can't work?

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gogalthorp Trusted Penguin Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: West (by God) Virginia Posts: 2,661	Have you installed the gcc compiler? Yast - Software - Software Management Search for gcc There will be a lot of packages for different purposes but normally just the main gcc package is enough.