The usual way is to move into the folder you created after decompressing the archive, and type ./configure make make install The last instruction as root. Anyway such packages come with a README and/or INSTALL file with relative instructions. Francesco Chris (ePortel PC Systems) wrote:

Thank you sir. No I haven't installed it I'll check it out thanks. I'll check it out. Also Francesco just turned me on to Glabels...and it looks like this will also work...but I hate to ask this question guys...but I'm a Ultra Newbie and have been having a heck of a time install the very common compressed file type .tar and tar.bz2...I can decompress them...but can't see to consistly install them...I've been reading and follow each step to doing this....but it NEVER seems to work!!! How is everybody installed software that comes in this format??

Thanks again guys for the time you spend answering questions like these! Chris

James Knott wrote:

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Chris (ePortel PC Systems) wrote:

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Hello all! I was looking for some software for printing labels for cd/dvd's and can't seem to find any! Does anybody know what software in OSL 10.2 has the templates for cd/dvd label printing? I've been using Avery 8692 model for years...but I can't find ANY software for OSL 10.2 to do this.

Thanks guys Chris

There are some templates available from the OpenSUSE site. Have you installed them?

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/suse/noarch/

There are also some templates on openoffice.org and elsewhere on the web. Further, if you have those templates elsewhere, simply save a file (even .doc if necessary) from it and then use that file to make your own template.

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francesco.teodori@gmail.com wrote:

The usual way is to move into the folder you created after decompressing the archive, and type

./configure

make

make install

The last instruction as root. Anyway such packages come with a README and/or INSTALL file with relative instructions.

this in in case of source file that needs compile. you have also to install all the stuff to compile (not really difficult though, less than one must fear) - that is gcc and the dependencies but many tar files are already usables as it, like firefox or seamonkey (nothing to install at all), it's frequent if the application is a perl or bash script. of course there are many variations, read the readme file :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Votez pour nous, merci - vote for us, thanks :-) http://musique.sfrjeunestalents.fr/artiste/Magic-Alliance/ http://photo.sfrjeunestalents.fr/artiste/jddphoto/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:50:26AM -0500, Chris (ePortel PC Systems) wrote:

Thank you sir. No I haven't installed it I'll check it out thanks. I'll check it out. Also Francesco just turned me on to Glabels...and it looks like this will also work...but I hate to ask this question guys...but I'm a Ultra Newbie and have been having a heck of a time install the very common compressed file type .tar and tar.bz2...I can decompress them...but can't see to consistly install them...I've been reading and follow each step to doing this....but it NEVER seems to work!!! How is everybody installed software that comes in this format??

"tar" files are a bit like ".zip" files under Windows - they are a collection of files brought together into one "ARchive" [1] - except that there is no file compression performed (so they take up approximately the same amount of disk space as the sum of all of the original files). The .bz2 extension means that the tar file has been compressed with the 'bzip2' utility. You might also find .tar.gz files (where the file has been compressed with 'gzip') and .tgz (which is a shortened form of .tar.gz) To extract all the files, you use one of the following: tar xvf <filename>.tar tar xzvf <filename>.tar.gz tar xzvf <filename>.tgz tar xjvf <filename>.tar.bz2 [2] However.... tarfiles are not like .rpm files that SuSE uses for packages. RPMs are specifically designed for a Linux distribution, and often contain commands to run after the files have been extracted to install the tool into the correct place. tarfiles are /just/ collections of files (like .zip files in Windows). Often you will find that a tool distributed as a tarfile is just the C source, which you then have to compile. This means that they are easy for the tool provider to distribute (since they don't have to provide different RPMs for different distributions), but it's more work for the user (i.e. you). I'm afraid you have to use a bit of intelligence and detective work to determine how to get the tool to work after you've extracted the contents of the tarfile. Often you will find that the tarfile contains a file called "INSTALL" or "README"; these might give you some clues. HTH... [1] In case you're wondering, the "T" comes from "Tape". In the olden days of UNIX, the 'tar' command was mostly used for reading and writing backup tapes. To some extent, it still is, but most computer users nowadays will never have seen a tape drive, let alone used one... :-) [2] 'man tar' will give you much more information on how to use tar; possibly more than you're able to digest. -- David Smith | Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 Home: +44 (0)1454 616963 STMicroelectronics | Fax: +44 (0)1454 462305 Mobile: +44 (0)7932 642724 1000 Aztec West | TINA: 065 2380 GPG Key: 0xF13192F2 Almondsbury | Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com BRISTOL, BS32 4SQ | Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org