On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 4:08 am, David E. Fox wrote: > First step is to look at it: > > $ zcat xtrs-4.5a.tar.gz | tar -tvf -
tar (at least on MDK9.0) can read compressed archives, so $ tar -tzvf xtrs-4.5a.tar.gz will do just as well. In fact bash wildcarding is your friend here. I usually use just $ tar -tzvf xtrs* > Now, let's extract: > > $ zcat xtrs-4.5a.tar.gz | tar -xvf - $ tar -xzvf xtrs* > Normally, building consists of four steps: > > ./configure > make > su root > make install Terry missed the fact that you have to be superuser (ie root) to do the install step. -- Richard Urwin
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