On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, Jerry Human wrote:
> Hello RH People:
>
> While trying to get ppp to work in RH 6.2 I was surfing the web in Win95
> and found a few packages I'd like to use and D/Led them. Unfortunately
> they are in .tar.tar and .tar.gz packages. I'm a newbie and don't speek
> Linux RH geek yet but that is what the manpages are written with. Would
> someone be kind enough to tell me how to uncrunch/build/install these
> packages? I guess I'll just give up on ppp and keep Win95 for surfing
> and email since nothing works to get ppp setup correctly.
>
For the tar files, open up a console window and locate the
files. PROBABLY they are in ~/ (shorthand for your "home"
directory.) Then, type "tar xzvf <filename.tar.gz>" and
stand back. It *should* create a directory under your home
directory called <filename.some.version.number-here> (i.e.
Galaxy-1.1.2.tar.gz would unpack to a directory
Galaxy-1.1.2) Then change to that directory and see if
there's a "README" file or something like that. TYPICALLY,
you can just do the following:
1) Type "./configure" (minus quotes) That is "dot-slash
configure" The "dot-slash" (./) is important. You need it
to execute programs from your the directory you are in.
2) Type "make" (minus quotes)
3a) type "su" and enter, then type in your "root" password
3b) type "make install"
4) Type "make clean"
5) type "exit."
Your program should be installed now.
For tar only files, just leave off the "z" in the initial
command.
John
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