installation of applications

buzuluk · #1 5th October 2010, 12:33 PM

How one can install applications from archives .gz and .bz ?

johno12345 · #2 5th October 2010, 01:13 PM

.gz and .bz archives are usually tarballs of source code.

the usual method would be to untar the archive change into its directory and run a make.

this procedure varies from software to software but there is usually an INSTALL file in the tarball which documents the installation process.

a simple example would be
file.tar.gz

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tar zxvf file.tar.gz

gives the directory file, change into it.

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cd file

ls in the directory gives a series of files, most of the time there is a shell script called configure which readies your build environment and creates a makefile based on this. (make sure you have all the development tools installed yum groupinstall "Development Tools")
so run

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./configure

this will do lots of whizzy text stuff, if it completes successfully run

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make

if that completes successfully run

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make install

voila software installed.

if the archive is a bz you can change the tar command to

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tar xvfj file.tar.bz