i've never done it before. Im on redhat WS, anyone know how to do it?

Extract it with:

tar -zxvf filename.tgz

then cd into the extracted directory and have a look at the read me/install files if they're there.

typically, you install it via

./configure
make
make install

but check the readme/installs first for specifics.

TGZ files are what I call slackpacks. They are for installing on Slackware.

You can usually do ' installpkg packagename.tgz ' in Slackware.

I think you could do ' tar -zxvf packagename.tgz ' in Redhat. and then you'll have a folder with all that unzipped inside it. Beyond that, you'll have to read the "README" for the specific package.

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Nice work Skyline, we must have been typing at the same time --

Peace,
Whitehat

Thanks Whitehat - its probably happened to me about 50-130 times over the last 6 months aswell - glad to hear the OpenOffice trial went ok

After you download it, open up a terminal, go to the directory you saved it to using the "cd" command. Then, type the following:

tar -xzvf file-name.tgz

You'll see a bunch of stuff scrolling by on your screen until it stops and you're back at your command prompt.

Now, you can type:

ls

and you'll see your file you just downloaded, and you'll see the same file as a directory without the .tgz attached to the end. We need to go there.

cd directory-that-was-just-created

Now you really should at this point, view any and all README, INSTALL, etc. files to make sure there's nothing else you need to do or get. If there's not, then type the following:

./configure

then when that's done:

make

then when that's done (will take longer than the first step):

make install

You're done. Enjoy compiling from source.

thanks!

Man you guys are fast! I would've posted sooner but I'm at work and my phone was ringing off the hook. I had to keep stopping typing. LOL