Here's a quick step by step to get you to the install part.
1. 'cp <filename> <dir you want to unpack it in>'
2. 'cd <dir you cp to>'
3. If the file ends in .tar only, and not .tar.gz goto step 5.
4. If ends in .tar.gz type 'tar xzvf <filename>' then goto step 6
5. If ends in .tar only type 'tar -xvf <filename>'
6. 'cd <filename> without the .tar (ex. Original file was program.tar.gz
the dir it unpacks to is just program)
7. 'more README' or 'more INSTALL'
8. Read the readmes and install notes, that'll explain how to go the rest of
the way. Essentially, when a file is a Tarball (.tar) it's source code and
not binary. Sometimes it will be a binary, but read the README file and
it'll explain from there.
Shane
----- Original Message -----
From: 1stFlight ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux Newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 3:35 PM
Subject: Installing and compiling new programs
> 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
>
> --
> "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"
>
>
>
