[TriLUG] tar help?

[WA Brown]

I unpacked it in "/"




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joseph Mack NA3T" <jmack at wm7d.net>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] tar help?


> 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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