Installing issue with tar.gz files

[Rob Rosenthal]

>On Saturday 12 February 2005 12:54, Kumara wrote:

>Generally speaking, a tar.gz file is going to be the srcs, not the 
>executables.  To install that will require that you have the 
>'development' packages installed into your system so that you have 
>the compiler and other tools required to build and install that 
>package on your system

>Bear in mind that rpm will have no knowledge of anything installed by 
>this method.  That doesn't mean its 1005 bad to do, and ai have quite 
>a bit of stuff so installed on this system.

You can always build an .rpm from the tarball (tar.gz file). If a newbie 
like me can do it, anyone can. Then just install it with rpm.