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Installing software on Linux
Name: Ahaz wart Date: May 7, 2001 at 03:42:25 Pacific
Comment:
Hi,
I am very novice to this worlds of Linux. I would like to intall software on Linux platform but could not do that simple think. Can someone help me and tel me how to do that.
Name: di1bert Date: May 7, 2001 at 09:24:54 Pacific
Reply:
Basically it all depwends on your system..if its redhat based (mandrake, redhat, suse etc.) the easiet is to get the RPM files of what you want and just install with rpm -ivh . Otherwise its a case of getting the source tarballs (tar.gz files), extracting and then compiling...All the info you will need to make these files are in the INSTALL file which come with the tarball...
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