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05-30-2003, 12:32 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: root@localhost
Distribution: Fedora Core 5, Ubuntu, Debian
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you should read the readme file, there must be a installation instruction there...  if you want you can extract it first... 
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05-30-2003, 01:10 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Mosquitoville
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
Posts: 3,306
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it doesn't install like a windows driver would, where you just
click on something.
you have to extract it
with tar zxvf <filename>
or a similar command, then read the documentation inside, and
it will tell you what to do. there should be a file called README
and a file called INSTALL.
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05-30-2003, 01:57 PM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: West Islip, New York
Distribution: Slackware 10.0, Windows XP Pro
Posts: 128
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isn't the command tar -xzvf <filename> ? Your forgot the - in the last post.
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05-30-2003, 10:34 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Mosquitoville
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
Posts: 3,306
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i didn't forget it. it works either way. though i'm most
capable of forgetting things like that, i didn't in this case.
tar is crazy like that.
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