-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joe Sloan wrote: | 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
the only problem you should run into is some dependency maybe some library you do not have installed. but it should tell you that in the output from the config script. like joe said if you find an .rpm your much better off, it includes everything you need. if its not in the suse repository check rpmfind.net or google it, chances are someone has made one somewhere. - -- Steve Reilly http://reillyblog.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHlATJ1L48K811Km0RAi9aAJ9o8jVDPCGsq0JEVM0PytKy6BxAYwCeOAQQ yH99SU7/bGOKaLmOjEELjBc= =09Em -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
