Installing .tgz programs.. Help Its urgent..

[//siddhartha//]

Hi! everyone.. I downloaded many programs and games for LINUX (SuSE 9.1 )from the net. Most are in the form .rpm and .tgz format. I can install .rpm programs.. Bt how do I install .tgz programs.. Plz help..

[utsavhanda]

Hi There,

Well for installing .rpm files u should know rpm command.

For .tgz, they are mainly source code files (sometimes) which had been tar[red] and gzipped in linux or u can say they havebeen compressed.

For installing .tgz files u should follow these steps & should write commands as root ::

1) copy .tgz file to a dir .
2) TYPE = tar -xvzf packagename.tgz
[ This will create dir with source files in it ]
3) TYPE = ./configure
4) TYPE = make
5) TYPE = make install

*** INFO ::Ffor more info on how to install that particular package read INSTALL file in dir there.

Hope this helps u .

Ur's
Utsav Handa --- ( handautsav [at] hotmail.com )
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