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how to install .tar.gz files:
I've read a few threads on this forum, and a couple of others. (yes, i did some light research b4 posting lol)
They all tell me the same thing:
upzip, cd to dir, then ./configure , then make install, then run the prog.
Here is the problem I've run into in like almost every one I've downloaded:
"
[root@localhost doom-1.8]# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
[root@localhost doom-1.8]# make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
[root@localhost doom-1.8]# ./sdoom
bash: ./sdoom: cannot execute binary file
[root@localhost doom-1.8]# ./xdoom
bash: ./xdoom: cannot execute binary file
[root@localhost doom-1.8]# xdoom
bash: xdoom: command not found
[root@localhost doom-1.8]# sdoom
bash: sdoom: command not found
[root@localhost doom-1.8]# "
what am i doing wrong?
any help appreciated.
thanx
thanx for the responses.
it is doom 1.8 that i downloaded from an ftp site i found when i ran apt-get update
the files are located in /downloaded (a dir i created for, well, downloaded stuff lol)
I read the readme, etc and it gave little to no installation instructions.
but it did say that xdoom is the X11 executable and sdoom is the svga executable.
as u can see, i typed ./xdoom and ./sdoom both which tell me "cannont execute binary file"
how come it won't execute the executable? lol
but this is just one example of several .tar.gz files i've tried and got the same results
will temporarily modifying my $path to include this dir "/downloaded/linux-doom-1.8/doom-1.8" help? (nope)
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