Hello, ====== > How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't > have .deb extensions?
If they are only gzipped, then there is only file inside the .gz file, and you unzip it using gunzip, like : gunzip name_of_the_file.gz However, if the files end with .tar.gz or with .tgz, then you have to use tar to extract files from this archive, and you do it this way: tar xpzvf name_of_the_file.tar.gz It is very often better to install a package than to install from these archives, as they can contain pure source files which you have to compile and arrange inside your system. In the .deb packages that is already done. All the best, Peter ********************************* * Peter Paluch * * Kukucinova 939/35 * * 024 01 Kysucke Nove Mesto * * Slovakia, Europe * * ----------------------------- * * tel: +421 826 421 2542 * * e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ********************************* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .