In a message dated: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:51:30 EDT
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>Adobe Acrobat Reader = linux-ar-40.tar.gz
This is a gzip compressed tar archive. In this case, Acrobat comes with a
proprietary installer program which takes care of everything for you. It's
actually not a bad installer, since if I remeber correctly, it actually asks
you where you want to put acrobat.
>Webmin (two downloads) = 1. webmin-0.80.tar.gz
> 2. webmin-0.81.rpm
The first is a source tar-ball, which means you will have to follow the
directions in the README and INSTALL files once you unarchive the source to
figure out how to compile and install webmin. I don't know anything about
this package, but ideally they used the GNU autoconf/automake facility, and
installations is as simple as:
./configure <a bunch of config options>
make
make install
The second is the RedHat RPM for the same package, an will in all likeliness
place things in the /usr filesystem. Also note the revision difference
between the 2 packages. The first one is slightly older than the RPM. If you
plan on insalling from source, you might want to grab the 0.81 tar ball
instead. The RPM can be installed thusly:
rpm -Uvh webmin-0.81.rpm
(you could also just use rpm -i, read the RPM man page and usage output).
>nmap (two downloads) = 1. nmap-2.53-1.scr.rpm
> 2. nmap-2.53.tgz
The first one here is a source RPM, which means you get the source to this
package, the config files, etc. but it doesn't actually install the program.
You'll end up with a bunch of stuff in /usr/src/redhat, that will likely not
do you much good.
The second is a tar-ball of the nmap src. This would be untarred into a
directory using the command:
tar zxvf nmap-2.53.tgz
or
gzip -dc nmap-2.53.tgz | tar xvf -
This will result in a directory called (ideally) nmap-2.53, in which you would
again follow the procedure:
./configure <a bunch of config options>
make
make install
The difference between the source tar-ball and the source RPM is that the RPM
contains all the information needed to create the actual install-RPM; config
files, source, etc. There are RPM commands you could use to create an
installable RPM. The source tar-ball is nothing more than just the source
code for the program.
Hope that helps.
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Seeya,
Paul
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