how to instal tar files

[Sujit Sugathan]

hi i'm new to linux & i dont know how to install tar & rpm files from cds. i
have FC3 installed on my system . please help me . any help rendered will be
appreciated.

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 06:54:33PM +0530, sujit sugathan wrote:
> hi i'm new to linux & i dont know how to install tar & rpm files from cds. i
> have FC3 installed on my system . please help me . any help rendered will be
> appreciated.

For rpms looking at: man rpm
should help. But briefly: rpm -ivh foo.rpm 
should install the rpm and : rpm -Uvh foo.rpm 
should install the rpm is it is no0t installed or update the rpm if an
earlier version is installed.

For tars put the tar some where such as /usr/local/src
the execute: tar -xf foo.tar  or tar -xzf foo.tgz
depending if the tar file is gzipped as well as tarred. That will
normally produce a directory called foo that has in it the contents of
the tar file. cd to the directory and see instructions for installing
in documentation files hopefully found there.

[Gilboa Davara]

First and foremost, try not to use tar files; use RPMs as much as you
can.
As for using RPMs:
> From console, as root, type:

Install an RPM file:
$ yum install <file_name.rpm> 
Delete an RPM file:
$ yum remove <package_name>

For more information, open a console, and type:
$ man yum
(In general, for help on any program, type: man <command_name>)

Further more, I'd suggest you read this:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/fc3/

Gilboa
P.S. Please don't post in HTML.

On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 18:54 +0530, sujit sugathan wrote:
> hi i'm new to linux & i dont know how to install tar & rpm files from
> cds. i have FC3 installed on my system . please help me . any help
> rendered will be appreciated.