I was trying to get AVG anti virus installed and try it on Suse as I was used to it on the left behind windows (Vista was it! No more microsoft!). One had to download a tarball to go with it or it wouldn't work. Don't ask what the name of the tarball. That was in the Fedora distro I tried for about a week and ever true to style, I've forgotten it. It was a tar.gz, however. Thanks for the answers. I can figure it out now if I have to. This brings up another question. Does Suse have some sort of security other than firewalls? I haven't seen any great importance on anti virus/spyware programs. Thanks all. I appreciate the friendliness and direct answers. 10 years ago when I tried it for a good while, I couldn't get that many answers. I got a lot of people who thought they were superior because I didn't know something. That could be another reason people aren't using linux. A few slaps in the face will drive people in droves back to windows. I suspect that happened. Well, I heard it had changed, it has, and I truly appreciate it. John
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 18:23 -0800, 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
