John B Pace wrote:
> You are dealing with an older dummy here, but too old! I'm wanting to
> know if there is a way to install tarballs properly in Suse. To an
> extent each version of linux I have tried are different, but in each I
> have found it impossible to install a tarball.    Thanks!   John
>
>   
I've installed a few, but the method often depends on the specific
tarball.  Generally, you have to untar the file, and do a make and make
install, though I prefer to replace make install with checkinstall,
which creates an RPM file, that can be managed with Yast.


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