How to install .tar.bz2?
 

Hi,

I like to install some programs from the Slackware cd, but they have the .tar.bz2 format and I don't know how install these.
Can someone tell me how I should do it?

Thanks.

Try
it will create a directory called 'nameofpackage'. Go there and follow the instructions of 'INSTALL', or do the 'config >> make >> make install' sequence.
Regards

#bzip2 -dv filename.tar.bz2
to decompres, and after
#tar xfv filename.tar

There are many other/quick ways...
Take a look to the man of this commands....

Thanks for the quick reply. I was afraid of that, I was hoping about an automated install possibility. I think I will download some rpms and use the rpm2tgz utility.

Thanks.

What does this 'rpm2tgz do? Does it convert a rpm to tgz?
In that case, why is more simple to use this program and then another one to uncompress, than do directly 'tar xjf ... ? :confused:

You can try www.linuxpackages.net for slack .tgz pkgs..

Yes...

Checkinstall is another powerfull tool to create a slack pkg from a source...

I have presumed a tgz will install like an rpm, and I had bad experiences with compilng from source.

Thanks. I know checkinstall. It's really usefull.

you can also use

bzcat file.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf

I think it works best because your file will remain compressed as a bzip2 which is much smaller than .tar

Be careful with doing the rpm2tgz thing... You don't know how the packages were built, where it is going to try to install stuff.... If you absolutely don't want to compile from source (using checkinstall so you can easily removepkg them) then search for .tgz packages (linuxpackages or elsewhere)

Ok thanks.