I get discouraged sometimes ,it's been my hobby since a kid. Just looking for support ...

Thanks !

What is your question?

Which distribution have you tried so far? Fedora? Ubuntu? CentOS? ....

Your thread title suggests you have an issue with using tar and/or RPM files, but your post looks like you just want to blow off steam.

If this thread is just a pressure valve and not a request for help, please post under Linux General (or General if not Linux related) and please use a more appropriate title for the post.

If, however, you have an actual question, please let us know what the issue is.

Regards,

Dis

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My question is how Do I install a Tar.gz/bzip/Rpm file to run as a program?

what to do first in simple steps .

Thanx

The commands that operate on compressed tar files (e.g. .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tbz, .tgz) and RPM files, are "tar" and "rpm", respectively. Look at their man pages to see how to use them (e.g. "man tar" will give you the man page for tar). For tar files, you'll need to extract the contents (again, the man page will tell you how) and then read any instructions that the file contains.

This seems to be a bit of a duplicate of this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-files-777139/

Did you report it then? They don't appear to have the same question in, even if their titles are the same.

No, I didn't report it, but they just seemed to have the same purpose to me.

To install RPM files:
To extract tar files:
To extract compressed tar files:
Once you have extracted your tar file, you will still need to perform the installation phase.

CD to the extracted directory (the v option to tar is to provide verbose information which will tell you each file that was extracted from the tar file)

You should see a README file, take the time to read the information in this.

Most source installations boil down to something approximating:
However, before you can do this, you need to have the development tools installed.

Report it if you think it's a duplicate - that's better than relying on the mods to see it!