How to install from tar.gz2

[Arkadiy Butermanov]

2008/7/5 Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>:

> --- On Sat, 7/5/08, Luis Orlindo Tedeschi <luis.tedeschi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Luis Orlindo Tedeschi <luis.tedeschi at gmail.com>
> > Subject: How to install from tar.gz2
> > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 8:01 AM
> > Folks; I am new to Linux/Fedora and I have a question
> > regarding tar.bz2
> > files. I searched for this topic and I did not get I clear
> > answer. How
> > to I install from a tar.gz2 file? Thanks in advance...
> > --
> > Luis Orlindo Tedeschi <luis.tedeschi at gmail.com>
> >
> > --
>
> >From tar.gz2, I do not know or have enough experience with it, but the
> previous
>
> filename.tar.bz2, it is not that hard.
>
> 1) extract the archive with
> $ tar -jxvf filename.tar.bz2
>
> 2) change to the directory and read the files README,INSTALL,...,
>
> $ ./configure
> $ make
> $ su -c 'make install'
> password:
>
> Usually it is like that, it will depend on the archive.  With *.tar.gz, the
> process is similar only that the file is extracted with
>
> $ tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz
>
> HTH,
>
> Antonio
>
>
>
>
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Also sometimes tar archives have inside shell script files (like install.sh
or upgrade.sh)
You may extract folder from archive, go in it (cd command) and run this
script (./install.sh)
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