[TriLUG] tar help?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, WA Brown wrote:

> I can unzip it and unpack the tarball but thats as far as I can go. I cannot 
> get it to install. I have tried "make" and it says there is nothing to do. I 
> have never really understood how to do this. Couls someone give me a step by 
> step instructions? I am trying to install mpg123 on Fedora Core5.

is the tarball source code? In this case you have to run 
`configure` then make.

if it's binaries, it will be a set of files starting at /
If you unpack it in some directory, possibly it will have a 
script to move it to /

Joe

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