TAR.GZ INSTALLATION

[PCGal]

I am just moving in to messing around on linux and I have a problem. A lot of the files of games and what not, I want to install are tar.gz files. This is fine and all but, I have no idea how to install them. Someone please help.

[Enderman]

unzip it first

[GuyNamedBrad]

You don't need extract the file.

To install some file *.tar.gz, you basically would do:

1. Open a console, and go to the directory where the file is

2. Type: tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

3. Read the file INSTALL and/or README to know if you need some dependencies.

Most of the times you only need to:

1. type ./configure

2. make

3. sudo make install

You may need sudo access to work with some commands.

[othertomperson]

2 hours ago, bradmonster said:

You don't need extract the file.

To install some file *.tar.gz, you basically would do:

1. Open a console, and go to the directory where the file is

2. Type: tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

3. Read the file INSTALL and/or README to know if you need some dependencies.

Most of the times you only need to:

1. type ./configure

2. make

3. sudo make install

You may need sudo access to work with some commands.

You don't need to extract the file... then step two extracts the file.

[GuyNamedBrad]

15 hours ago, othertomperson said:

You don't need to extract the file... then step two extracts the file.

lol