I'm about to start patronising - I apologise if you see this as condescending, but then at least I know what you know
.tgz is the same as tar.gz (they are both gzip-compressed tar archives), except .tgz is what Slackware uses to differentiate it's contents from .tar.gz files.
Slackware packages contain binaries (the built program(s), like Windows does), while typically .tar.gz archives are source files (what you use to build the binaries).
As satinet has kindly pointed out, you can unpack them and compile them from source yourself. I would recommend doing this for the gphoto stuff. If I recall correctly, the build order will be:
libgphoto2
gphoto2
gtkam
(I use gtkam, too, it feels a bit buggy and I find I always have to run it as root, but, su -c gtkam is not exactly hardship =) )
I will assume you have checkinstall. If you don't, now is the time to get it. I believe it can be located in the extras/ directory, or, here:
http://slackware.it/en/pb/package.ph...l-1.5.3-i486-2
You'll want to use the following commands for each one (I've commented them so you know what they do):
Code:
~$ tar xfz <archive> # this unpacks the .tar.gz archive into the current directory
~$ cd <archive>
~$ ./configure --prefix=/usr # configure the source and put it into /usr, not /usr/local (where it goes by default)
~$ make # build the configured source
~$ su -c 'checkinstall' # make a slackware package from the `make install` script and install it
You may have to check that checkinstall is actually installing the package automatically, in the latest versions of checkinstall the default is to make the package (.tgz) but not install it.
After you've installed libgphoto2 you might have to run: su -c ldconfig
Just to make sure the libraries are all up to date.
Finally, once it's all installed, you can run: su -c gtkam
And enjoy your camera on Linux =)
- Piete.