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Old 08-20-2004, 09:18 AM   #1
houtenkop
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Tar.gz

Help what do I have to do with a tar.gz file
I'm a very newby I know
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Old 08-20-2004, 09:28 AM   #2
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# tar xvzf package.tar.gz (or tar xvjf package.tar.bz2)
# cd package
# ./configure
# make
# make install

See http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html for more information, that whole site was a help to me when i first got linux.
 
Old 08-20-2004, 09:34 AM   #3
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