On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 18:07:42 -0400 john disseminated the following: > > tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz > > or > > tar -xjvf filename.tar.bz2 > Is this done from within the download directory?
Wherever you downloaded the file to, yes. So, say you downloaded Planner to /home/john/downloads, you would 'cd' to that dir, then do as advised above. *Then* 'cd planner-0.12.1', ./configure --prefix=/usr, make, su to root, and make install. > --prefix??=/usr Not sure what this means--recommend "prefix". Usr--my > name or does this refer to usr directory. Doing './configure --prefix=/usr' just makes it so that the application is installed to the /usr directory. Most source packages default to /usr/local. Nothing to do with your username. > is there a particular directory to change to? You want to do all of these things (./configure, make, make install) inside the directory created when you did 'tar -xvzf planner-0.12.1.tar.gz'. Do an 'ls', and you should see a directory called 'planner-0.12.1'. That's where you want to be. So, in summary: 1. tar -xvzf planner-0.12.1.tar.gz 2. cd planner-0.12.1 3. ./configure --prefix=/usr 4. make 5. su <enter root pass when prompted> 6. make install -- JoeHill RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:26:02 up 38 days, 18:11, 6 users, load average: 1.34, 1.24, 1.21 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Hunter S. Thompson
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