basic installation of tar files...?

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Aaron

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Im Using Fedora 15 (becuz windows 7, vista, And Xp Refused to install on this hdd F$%^ you Windows)
Anyway so i NEED to lean how to install tar files ie. "RARLINUX-4.1.b3.tar.gz" i just downloaded this becuz there was no RPM Download... plz help...
 
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RobDutoit

New member
a tar is the same concept as a winzip file. You type the command to extract it, then you need to install it.

The commands are:

•tar xf filename.tar.gz
Then you change to the directory that it creates.
then you type
./configure
press enter
then type
make
press enter
then type
make install
press enter
then type
make clean
press enter

This will install the program onto your fedora system.

This is how it works on slackware, it may not work the same way on fedora. Hope that helps.
 
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