Re: [school-discuss] Installing From Tar

[David <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Joel,
Good stuff, and Daniels points are definitely useful.Â

If you've already cracked the problem, forget it, but if not, you might give us some specifics. For example, what distribution are you working on? And ... can you tell us what apps/programs you need to run (or at least one) and their/its version(s) so we can have a look? Once you get through this, you may just find you like it. Or maybe not, but at least you'll realize you can do it.

David

On 19/12/2557 17:41, Daniel Villarreal wrote:

Joel,
Please take a look at this. If you have any questions and/or need more help, just let me know.

It should be very rare that you would be required to install a program from source,
depending upon the GNU/Linux distribution you are using.

# 1.Be careful where you get files from, try to use official sources.
Download file and verify checksum information, to verify
that the file has not been tampered with, and that the download
completed... I don't bother with MD5 algorithm, if SHA256 and/or higher
is available.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO-11.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToSHA256SUM

#2. Verify that you're able to change permissions, if necessary. Set
permissions on file so that you can uncompress it. You may
need to use sudo or become root to install software.

http://www.linux.org/threads/command-chmod.161/

you can do a search like the following for examples...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tar+files+linux
http://askubuntu.com/questions/25961/how-do-i-install-a-tar-gz-or-tar-bz2-file

it really helps to read the germane man pages...
on your system, do
$ man ls
and
$ man tar
and
$ man chown
and
$ man sudo

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/installing-a-program-from-a-tar-bz2-7855
08/

kind regards,
Daniel Villarreal
http://www.youcanlinux.org/

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Joel Kahn <jj2kk4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been looking at online instructions for installing Linux apps from tar files....

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