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
The installation of a program from a tarball is a fairly standard drill in any linux distro, typically a few steps: tar -xvf program.tar cd program ./configure make make install If program.tar is actually program.tgz or tar.gz, or tar.bz2, then the untar command becomes tar -xzvf for gzipped files or tar -xjvf for bzip2. Having said that, it's far far better to find a proper suse package, rather than making a home-made build of some random tarball. If there's no suse package available anywhere, then of course a tarball install will work. So, what package are you trying to install, and what difficulties are you running into? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
