[SOLVED] Installing tar.gz & bz2 & z files

[ZenOnza]

please tell me

what are the executable files in the SLED 11.1? Like what we have exe setups & etc files..in Windows.

Where & how to find an executable (setup) file in a zipped tar.gz or tar.bz2 file. if i click to a downloaded tar.bz2 or tar.gz file it just opens into a Folder showing many files & folders. if i extract it again it just gets extracted into a folder. how to install tar.gz tarbz2 & tarz files.
bcoz i am not finding few things in Pack -man repositories and others. i am getting only tar zip files i had to install it in suse linux enterprise desktop 11.1 . please help!
thank you in advance.....

[oz]

You can check this HowTo for a number of different ways to install packages under Linux:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html

You are doing the right thing by using your default package tool to install packages whenever possible.

[reed9]

tar.gz, tar.bz2, etc. are compressed file formats, like zip or rar. These are usually used to package the source code of programs, which is probably what you are downloading.

Compiled, or binary, packages are distributed in a number of different archive formats, depending on the distro and package manager used. Suse uses the rpm format. This is roughly equivalent to .exe in Windows.

As said, you should pretty much always default to using your package manager when possible. If a package isn't in the distro's repositories, there are a number of trusted 3rd party repositories you can set up, depending on the distro, and other places to find packages.
RPM Search

Failing that, you can compile the source code yourself.
Compiling software - openSUSE

[D-cat]

and as a quick answer for those few packages that come with executable binaries (like firefox), the way you see the executable file(s) is by looking at the permissions.

Each permission set is in the format (type)(user)(group)(others) -rwxrwxrwx

Type is a single letter for directory or link or other special file type, or just a "-" for a regular file.
Then there's the individual permission levels. Each one has a spot for "rwx"

"r" means "can read"
"w" means "can write to"
"x" means "can execute (in)"

Showing the letter means that permission is enabled. Showing a "-" in its place means that permission is disabled and will be denied.

Therefore, the files that show something like "-r-xr-xr-x" will be readable (read-only) and executable for everybody.

[ZenOnza]

ok i got it !