Installion Questions

[Filippos Klironomos]

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> 1.  What is the appropriate way to install a .src.rpm and a tar.gz?
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'man rpmbuild' is full of info. Short way of doing it:

rpmbuild <rpm-src>.src.rpm

but you might want to add some flags to it depending on the situation.

for tar.gz you do

tar xzvf <tar-package>.tar.gz

and then enter the directory created and read the README for more!
Usually it is something like:

./configure
make
make install