How can open files with name tar. gz. I unpress these and then what? I don't know what do next!



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Chris Turner
wizardfromoz
 
First question is how did you uncompress them? With TAR or GZip? I would use TAR to uncompress like so;

Code:
tar -zxvf file.tar.gz
This will normally give you a directory that the files were uncompressed into.

I like to uncompress into my /tmp like so:

Code:
tar -zxvf <yourfile>.tar.gz -C /tmp/

Then I just cd over there like so:

Code:
 cd /tmp/<yourfile>
 
Hey there - welcome to the site.

Like @Lazydog said, once you've unpacked the file, cd into the directory.

Typically, you'd run configure, make, then make install:
Code:
./configure
make
sudo make install

However, every package is different. Look for a README file in there and view the contents with your favorite text editor or simply cat the contents on to the screen to read through:
Code:
cat README.txt

You might see an 'INSTALL.txt' file as well which would have instructions. Some programs will let you add other parameters to the configure step like..
Code:
./configure --with-some-option

Hope this helps
 

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