How to install from tar.gz2

[Antonio Olivares]

--- 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