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Can anyone please tell me ho to install tarballs? i'm pretty new to Linux (openSUSE 10.2), and i have ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTION of going back to windows..kind of having problems ...
  1. 09-22-2007 #1
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    Question Tarballs

    Can anyone please tell me ho to install tarballs?
    i'm pretty new to Linux (openSUSE 10.2), and i have
    ABSOLUTELY NO INTENTION of going back to windows..kind of having problems here...
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    Hi and Welcome !

    Could you explain problem in a bit more detail? Check this tutorial on how to install Software in Linux.
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    well...i have pidgin-2.2.0.tar.bz2 on the desktop...and it's just laying there, looking ugly...what do i do??
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    Execute this
    Code:
    cd ~/Desktop
tar -jxvf pidgin-2.2.0.tar.bz2
    It will create Pidgin folder ( or something similar ) on Desktop. Open that folder and check README file for further instructions.
    In most cases, you have to execute this
    Code:
    cd ~/Desktop/<pidgin_folder>
./configure
make
su
make install
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    I tried, but it only says "bash: cd: /home/lxuser/desktop: No such file or directory"
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    Linux is case-sensitive.
    Code:
    cd ~/Desktop
    d should be Capital.
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    ah..sorry..my bad, i knew that...LOL i know something
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