software intsallation problems

hbonds1 · 03-26-2004, 09:18 PM

Could someone walk me through the process of installing downloaded software i.e. apollon in linux. I currently using suse 8.0 and do not have the slightest idea of what I am doing.

I am definitely a newby at this.

Thanks!

bnice · 03-26-2004, 09:34 PM

did you download the *.gz or the *.bz2?

if you have a different version, edit as appropriate

for gz

Code:

tar zxvf apollon-0.8.7.tar.gz

for bz2

Code:

tar xjvf apollon-0.8.7.tar.bz2

either one will create a directory called apollon-0.8.7

Code:

cd apollon-0.8.7
./configure && make && make install

if it blows up, it'll tell you why - maybe

if it works, just type the program name and off you go.

hbonds1 · 03-26-2004, 10:00 PM

I was able to download apollon-dist.tar.bz2. after the download was completed I clicked on a file named install.sh and it proceeded to install using kwrite? I have no way of telling if the installation was successful.