I'm sure documentation is all over the distro but the procedure is straightforward.
1. uncompress the archive (tarball): tar xvzf pkg_to_be_installed.tar.gz A directory named 'pkg_to_be_installed' will be created inside the working directory. 2. change to that directory: cd pkg_to_be_installed Check to see if it's a 'standard' source protocol situation. There should be a file 'configure' that is executable and another file 'Makefile'. If so the next set of commands will finish things up. If not then write back to the list and include a listing of the new direcotry. BTW, there should be text files "README' and "INSTALL" in the directory. Read them as they'll have specific instructions for compiling and installing the package. BTW2, you must have a compiler, gcc, the appropriate libraries, etc. installed. You get this by selecting 'development' during the installation of Mandrake. If you haven't installed this software do it now. You won't be able to proceed otherwise. 3. make sure you're logged in as root: su <rtn> root_password <rtn> 4. type './configure' (note the 'dot' before the 'slash') 5. If all OK, type 'make' 6. If all OK, type 'make install' You're done! On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 03:25, Marc Oestreicher wrote: > I guess that I have led a blessed life until now and have never had to > install anything that was not a Mandrake RPM packege. But now the time has > arrived when I need to install a tar.gz > I have looked around and so far have been unable to find any good > documation explaining how to install a application from a tar.gz file. > Anyone know of any good online doc's tutorials ect. ? > > Thanks -- Terry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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