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07-25-2004, 12:15 AM
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Registered: Jul 2004
Location: India
Distribution: Suse Linux Personal 9.1
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how do I install from tgz, tar files?
I recently downloaded mplayer in the form of tgz.bz2 . But how I install this package? (I'm a newbie) Also, i'm interested in downloading Tux racer but I feel a bit doubtful. Whatever help will be greatly appreciated!!!
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07-25-2004, 12:28 AM
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Washington State
Distribution: SuSE 9.3 / Slackware-Current
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Extract it.
./configure
make
make install
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07-25-2004, 05:39 AM
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: 35.7480° N, 95.3690° W
Distribution: Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, Solaris
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To extract it
tar xjvf file_name
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