Using Installpkg on a *.tar.gz file

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11-27-2006, 08:18 PM	#1
flowersrj LQ Newbie Registered: Nov 2006 Posts: 13 Rep:	*Using Installpkg on a .tar.gz file** Ignore post please. Last edited by flowersrj; 11-27-2006 at 09:34 PM.

11-28-2006, 12:54 PM	#2
MensaWater LQ Guru Registered: May 2005 Location: Atlanta Georgia USA Distribution: Redhat (RHEL), CentOS, Fedora, CoreOS, Debian, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, SCO Posts: 7,831 Blog Entries: 15 Rep:	It sounds like you found your answer. If so you should post the original question and the solution. That way someone searching for the same problem in future would find it.

11-29-2006, 07:04 AM	#3
flowersrj LQ Newbie Registered: Nov 2006 Posts: 13 Original Poster Rep:	I decided against installing package.

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