Installing and compiling new programs

[1stFlight !]

  Hello all!

  I'm still confused when I get a program to install in Redhat linux and
instead of being in rpm format its in tar format. How do I deal with a
tar file ? Also could I have the answer in a step by step manner, I'll
understand it better that way. Thanks!!


Darryl

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"Though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and
heaven, that which we are, we are; one equal temper of heroic hearts
made weak by time and fate but strong in will to strive, to seek, to
find and not to yield"

Tennyson's "Ulysses"