Re: [newbie] untar commands?
For the most part, if you download a tar.gz file, it has the source and that's what you're isntalling from. So you have to compile and install. The basic formate for that goes in 3 commands. ./configure That will configure the install information so it can be installed. make That command will make the install file that will then be installed. make install That command actually goes through and installs the program. There is normally a README file that will give you options for when compiling the program, but a lot of time it will detect the things it needs, uses them and then finishes. But you may want to change other things later, but I suggest you go with the K.I.S.S. rule until you're more comfortable with doing it. I create install scripts that give me the out put so I can review later, but you can just take the ./configure to start with. When it's done running that, run make. (Unless it tells you other wise! Make sure you look for something that asks for things like gmake.) After the make command stops, run make install. At which point you should be able to do a which progam name. To understand what the variables mean, do a man tar at a prompt and read through that. But for the most people use the tar -zxvf and even have something aliased to it for quicker use. You may want to get rid of the v at first, which is for verbose and will show you everything it's doing out on your terminal, but keep the rest on there just to make it easier and more consistant. Some software vendors will even give the commands to run in the actual README file or other "documentation" that came with the software. Hope that helps. tdh -- T. Holmes Unixtechs.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.unixtechs.org/ "Real Men use Vi." * Robert Fleming [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010228 03:45]: tar -xzvf filename should do it wade - Original Message - From: Bill Barto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:24 PM Subject: [newbie] untar commands? Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz file? I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make it work. My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I installed new controller card. MFG only has e-mail support and wife is crying about "the mouse doesn't work the same as windows". I d/l the support.pdf file from the MFG but the built in reader gives me blank pages. Now I have d/l Acrobat reader but can't get it to untar. Have used Archiver in 7.2 and can get to the files but leaves them in tar format. How do I get them from tar to executables?
Re: [newbie] untar commands?
Bill Barto wrote: Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz file? I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make it work. My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I installed new controller card. MFG only has e-mail support and wife is crying about "the mouse doesn't work the same as windows". I d/l the support.pdf file from the MFG but the built in reader gives me blank pages. Now I have d/l Acrobat reader but can't get it to untar. Have used Archiver in 7.2 and can get to the files but leaves them in tar format. How do I get them from tar to executables? If you are using LM 7.2, you should already have everything you need to install Acrobat Reader. I have the "Complete" distro, and it is on disk #3 in the AcrobatReader directory. The installation instructions are in the index.html file. For information on the tar command, use Konqueror to browse the location #tar and the usage instructions will be displayed.
Re: [newbie] untar commands?
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:24:46 -0500 Bill Barto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tar -zxvf 'wholecompletefilename' Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz file? I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make it work. My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I installed new controller card. MFG only has e-mail support and wife is crying about "the mouse doesn't work the same as windows". I d/l the support.pdf file from the MFG but the built in reader gives me blank pages. Now I have d/l Acrobat reader but can't get it to untar. Have used Archiver in 7.2 and can get to the files but leaves them in tar format. How do I get them from tar to executables? --- Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] untar commands?
Dear Bill: To uncompress a tar.gz file, simply do the following: As user, type tar -xzf xxx.tar.gz For example, to untar (uncompress) the mozilla browser suite, do as follows: tar -xzf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.8-MathML-SVG-XSLT.tar.gz It is sometimes preferable to put your tar.gz file into a special directory. For example, after downloading the mozilla file into your home directory, you can create a mozilla directory (you can call it whatever you want). For example, you can call it MOZ $ mkdir MOZ Then move the tar.gz file into this directory: $ mv mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.8-MathML-SVG-XSLT.tar.gz MOZ Now within /home/user/MOZ untar the file as above and you will find a new subdirectory, in this case, "mozilla" (/home/user/MOZ/mozilla). Now, either rebuild the tar.gz file (i.e "configure", "make" and "make install" -- this does NOT apply to Mozilla but to many other tar.gz binaries). In this case, all you need to do is to go into /home/user/MOZ/mozilla and type ./mozilla This will launch the Mozilla browser. Yours, Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin and Anna Sher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] untar commands?
tar -xzvf filename should do it wade - Original Message - From: Bill Barto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:24 PM Subject: [newbie] untar commands? Could someone please tell me how to uncompress and install a tar.gz file? I have been trying for hours checking the docs and can't seem to make it work. My BIOS ate my 40G HD and I installed new controller card. MFG only has e-mail support and wife is crying about "the mouse doesn't work the same as windows". I d/l the support.pdf file from the MFG but the built in reader gives me blank pages. Now I have d/l Acrobat reader but can't get it to untar. Have used Archiver in 7.2 and can get to the files but leaves them in tar format. How do I get them from tar to executables?
