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When I say I am green I am very green. But where in the world do you type all this stuff at? Everyone says type this and type that. But no one has said where it gets typed at. YIKES! Someone even said in order to run as root, then type su. I don't know where to type that either. All of this gets typed in the same place? I went to one place it didn't work.
If you downloaded a *.tar.gz or *.tar.bz2 package. Navigate to the
directory where you downloaded it and unpack it:
tar -xzvf <packagename>.tar.gz
or if it's a .bz2 package, then
tar -xjvf <packagename>.tar.bz2
Navigate to the unpacked directory then issue this order of commands:
./configure
make
su
(give your password)
make install
then to find out where it went at the terminal prompt type:
Or ctrl-alt-f2, if X is started from the first tty. And if you can find 'run' on the menu of a gnome or a kde, you can type 'xterm' in there and then type all the rest into xterm. (I like rxvt or aterm, but you may not have those - you're bound to have xterm.)
What any of that does is get you to your true shell, which is likely bash. That's the command.com/cmd.exe equivalent (only infinitely superior) and the most important application you have, along with the kernel itself.
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