install new software
 

Hi,

Can you tell me that how can we install a new software fron the source code and what are the steps that we need to follow to comple the source.

Extract the package using: tar xvfz (name of package here).tar.gz then cd into the newly created folder. Now do: ./configure if this completes do: make again if this completes, change to root and do: make install.

You should also take a look the LQ Wiki for more info on package management.

To be sure, always check for a "INSTALL" txt file in the extracted package. Everything is described there. You know, it is very adviced to check that file, because the default compile procedure (./configure, make, make install) may not work in some special cases. It only depends on the programmer which method does he choose for compilation. Anyway: programmers include a INSTALL file, where they describe how to compile their app.