Hi,
I'm quite new to linux. And I'm finding it difficult to install a package with "<filename>.tar.bz". I followed few threads but still I couldn't get it done properly.

I actually tried to install phpmyadmin, and downloaded the phpMyAdmin-3.3.8.1-all-languages.tar.gz.

Then used
"tar -zxvf phpMyAdmin-3.3.8.1-all-languages.tar.gz" command to unpack.

And in that solution, it said to execute a command called "./configure". But when I tried that, the terminal gave me an error saying,

"bash: ./config: No such file or directory".

I need help to figure this out.

Thank you,
Regards,
tab4trouble.

You missed the "ure" in "./configure". Try ./configure.

There should also be an INSTALL or README file in the same directory that has install directions.

But on another note, why are you installing from .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2)? Unless you have a specific reason to install from source, it's MUCH easier to use your distro's package manager. Assuming you're on Fedora like your profile says, and that that Fedora is recent, a simple "yum install phpMyAdmin" as root should install it for you.

tar.bz or tar.gz simply indicates a compressed archive, similar to rar or zip. It is a common way to distribute source code.

You should almost always default to installing package via your package manager. All the major distros have pretty extensive repositories of software packaged (presumably corrected) by the distro developers. phpmyadmin is pretty common and should be available in your distro.

To install from source, first you need the proper build tools, gcc, g++, and make among others. The exact requirements can differ depending on the software. As you seem to have found, one of the more common methods for building software involves the trio of
But this is by no means universal. The first of the three calls a configure script. There are two possibilities for your not found message. 1. There is no configure script and this software is not meant to be built this way. 2. You're not in the correct directory. When you extract the compressed archive, it should create a directory containing the extracted files. You need to enter that directory before running the configure script. (The ./ indicates the shell should look in the current directory for a file called "configure".)

Change directories with the cd command
or as seems like based on the file name you gave
The ~ is a shortcut for the current user's home directory.