john gibbons wrote: > I have installed Fedora 4 and have an application vym-1.7.0.tar.gz on my > desktop. Would appreciate advice on what I type into the terminal to > unzip it and then get it running.
to unpack (not to unzip because thats a geziiped tar-ball) use $ tar xvzf vym-1.7.0.tar.gz or alternatively to unpack the file to e.g. /tmp $ tar xvzf vym-1.7.0.tar.gz -C /tmp/ during unpacking the tar-ball you can see a list of files. what to do next depends on the content of the file. usually there is some txt-file (e.g. install.txt, readme.txt, ...) with additional information. worst-case is that you have to compile the application. but maybe there is an rpm for fedora or better way to install vym on fedora. br, gottfried
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