> > Hey All, > > I downloaded some *.gz (midnight commander, leap database and > maxwell). I have followed the various instructions on extracting these > programs but "here's the rub"......
mc is definatly a .deb, and I thinkthe others may well be. If they are, then you're much better off installing these rather than fiddling with tarballs and make files. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/