Jyry Kuukkanen wrote:
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Ozgeek wrote:
I am a beginner and would be grateful for help in how to open and install files with tar.gz SuSE will open the files OK and show a lot of files. However there doesn't appear top be an installation file. How do I go about installing these type of programmes. Thanks for your help.
Ozgeek
Hello
.tar.gz files are very much like .zip, so they naturally can contain source code to compile or binary files ready to run.
In case the .tar.gz contains binary files, then you simply unpack them somewhere and run it - after reading README/INSTALL or whatever comes with it.
Suse 7.3 comes with Konfigure, a KDE application, that should be able to automate configuration, compilation and installation of .tar.gz containing source code. If I were you I took a look at it.
--Jyry C:-( C:-/ C========8-O C8-/ C:-(
Thanks, Jyry. I found the application you mentioned. However, it seems to involve knowledge I haven't got yet, so I think I'd better stay wo ith RPM packages for a while. :>)
Regards Ozgeek