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Check the content of the archived file. If it's made out of folders (/usr, /opt etc.) then it's precompiled, and you can use pkgtool.
But if it's *.tar.bz2, *.tar.gz, (and/or made out of makefiles and libfiles) then you have to compile it first OR it just needs to be extracted if it's just an archived skin or something similar.
Just extract it with tar (-xzvf,-xvvf), and if it needs to be compiled follow the instructions in the readme files (usually ./configure,make, make install.), and instead of make install you can allways use checkinstall, witch creates a *.tgz package that you can install using pkgtool, so you can uninstall it later with pkgtool or removepkg.
Originally posted by XStorm Check the content of the archived file. If it's made out of folders (/usr, /opt etc.) then it's precompiled, and you can use pkgtool.
But if it's *.tar.bz2, *.tar.gz, (and/or made out of makefiles and libfiles) then you have to compile it first OR it just needs to be extracted if it's just an archived skin or something similar.
Just extract it with tar (-xzvf,-xvvf), and if it needs to be compiled follow the instructions in the readme files (usually ./configure,make, make install.), and instead of make install you can allways use checkinstall, witch creates a *.tgz package that you can install using pkgtool, so you can uninstall it later with pkgtool or removepkg.
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