Mario da Costa rearranged electrons thusly:
> I have a 486 with 24 MB of RAM. The OS is RH 6.0 At present I use
> Lesstif since it gives me the best result. FVWM2 is a bit slower. Of
> course if XFCE is better, then I would like to try it. The site you
Try it by all means then ...
> mentioned says that the RPM packages are built on a Red Hat 6.2 system.
> Do you think this will create a problem ?
If so download the tarball and compile it.
> Also what is a tarball ? How do you work with it ? Is it a tarred and
> zipped file which you unzip, untar and then compile ? Any pointers or
> links on how to do this ?
Like you said, tarball _is_ a tar.gz (or tgz) file.
# tar -xvzf filename.tar
[all files extracted into a directory]
# cd [directory]
There will be a file called INSTALL / README here. Read it :)
Most often, a basic, default install can be accomplished with
# ./configure
# make
# make test
to verify it
and finally
# make install
that will install the package.
If you are sure it works well, go to the executable directory where the
package is installed and give
# strip <filename>
that will remove debug info etc and reduce the executable's size.
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