how to instal tar files

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

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.
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