Installing issue with tar.gz files

[David Cary Hart]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 20:54 +0300, Kumara wrote:
> Hi list
> Could someone tell me how to compile/install packages that comes in
> tar.gz
> Ex. I have asterisk tar.gz source file but don't know how to install
> it. could someone give me steps to go ahead.

Almost every source tarball has two files; README and INSTALL. Start
there.
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>  
> I'm fairly familiar installations with rpm packages (but not src.rpm)
> hope your assistance
> Mohan

src.rpm packages are configured with the spec file. man rpmbuild.

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