Re: An Installation Question

From: David Chandler (solitude439_at_rcn.com)
Date: 06/26/05 

Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:45:53 -0400

Okay! Cool! Where do I type in these commands?

> David Chandler wrote:
>> I'm a newbie to Linux. I'm learning some new stuff but seems to get stuck
>> on some of the fuctioning capabilities. I guess my question is simple and
>> maybe what I have to do is painfully obvious.... How do I install a
>> program in Linux?
>
> Much depends on what linux distro you are using and in what form you have
> downloaded the program.
>
> A tarball usually needs to be unarchived and then run the installer, eg:
> tar -xzf silly_program.tar.gz
> cd silly_directory
> ./silly_installer
>
> Replace silly_program, silly_directory and silly_installer with those names
> used by the package you have downloaded.
>
>
> Not all tarballs are binary releases, but sourcecode, then you need to compile
> it before installing, eg:
> tar -xzf silly_program.tar.gz
> cd silly_directory
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> Replace silly_program and silly_directory with what ever the pacakge is called.
>
>
> Then there is distro bound packages, as like rpm and deb, those requires that
> your system supports the package managers in question, for redhat based
> systems you need to use the rpm tool to install the package, eg:
>
> rpm -Uvh packagename-version.i386.rpm
>
>
> Some distros provides a graphical interface where you can select official
> packages (sometimes even unofficial packages too) and install them without
> having to download them first.
>
>
> For further information I do suggest you start a browser and surf to the
> distros official homepage and read the documentation they provide and you will
> easily find what you need to know to install official packages.
>
>
>
> //Aho

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