On Thursday 02 January 2003 11:30 am, Gavin Rollins wrote:
> Graham,
>
> I had the same problem.. but via this group, I learned to download these
> files into my tmp file first, open them with Ark, transfer ALL the files to
> /usr/local or /usr/local/bin... not sure which one. (I'm sure someone will
> correct me!!) after you transfered the files they should make their own
> folder. goto that folder look for the "readme"doc and follow the
> directions.
>
> What other type of programs have you downloaded?? RPM'S?? if so I find them
> to be much easier.. but its best to learn both ways. Graham, its a long
> learning process but the fruit is so sweet once you get it! if you happen
> to see a post from "lanman" ask him your question.. he has and still is
> helping me with my system and I have a mini lab setup in my home... hope
> this helped a bit.. holla back soon.
> Gavin aka Grasshopper
>
> On Friday 03 January 2003 08:21 am, Graham Pohle wrote:
> > I've been downloading tar.gz files from the net, but for the life of me
> > I can't get them to work.I've run the tar -x command but it doesn't
> > work, and I've tried quite a few others, but they don't work. It's not
> > just the tar.gz files either, I'm having trouble running any program. My
> > name is graham and I can place the files in my home/graham dir OK, but
> > that's it. I can't do anything from there. The only program that I seem
> > to be having a bit of success with is nmap. It was a simple as typing
> > nmap as a root command and off I went.If anyone has some useful
> > information, I would appreciate it.(What would we do without
> > newbies?)LOL
If you are using KDE and in most cases from Konqueror, you can just double
click into the tar.gz file and then do a drag and drop of the files from
there into the temp directory. I generally use the superuser version so that
I have the terminal line available for anything else that I do.
David
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