anyone know how to install a .tar.gz onto mandriva powerpack 2008? its
not got any right click option and i kinda need it installin pretty
sharpish...

its a webdevelopment program and if theres one on the mandriva dvd i'll
install it but i couldn't find it when i had a quick mooch.

thanks in advance

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:32:32 GMT, myke wrote:
> anyone know how to install a .tar.gz onto mandriva powerpack 2008?

Yes.



> its
> not got any right click option and i kinda need it installin pretty
> sharpish...

Yep, that is some of the problems with only knowing gui.

> its a webdevelopment program and if theres one on the mandriva dvd i'll
> install it but i couldn't find it when i had a quick mooch.

If you mean an html editor, there is NVU, kompozer, bluefish, quanta,...

Back to your question, you might want to click up a terminal, and
man tar

Once you glanced at that, I would suggest

mkdir -p $HOME/tmp
cd $HOME/tmp

tar -zvxf /wherever/fn_her.tar.gz

ls -al

Do look at the files from the tar archive before proceeding much farther.

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:42:46 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:32:32 GMT, myke wrote:
>> anyone know how to install a .tar.gz onto mandriva powerpack 2008?
>
> Yes.
>
>
>
>> its
>> not got any right click option and i kinda need it installin pretty
>> sharpish...
>
> Yep, that is some of the problems with only knowing gui.
>
>> its a webdevelopment program and if theres one on the mandriva dvd i'll
>> install it but i couldn't find it when i had a quick mooch.
>
> If you mean an html editor, there is NVU, kompozer, bluefish,
> quanta,...
>
> Back to your question, you might want to click up a terminal, and man
> tar
>
> Once you glanced at that, I would suggest
>
> mkdir -p $HOME/tmp
> cd $HOME/tmp
>
> tar -zvxf /wherever/fn_her.tar.gz
>
> ls -al
>
> Do look at the files from the tar archive before proceeding much
> farther.

yea i did the tar xvzf, cd (whatever), ./configure, make, su (password)
make install

did ask me to instlal a few packages from the dvd but it works :) woot.
thanks guys :)

myke wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:42:46 +0000, Bit Twister wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:32:32 GMT, myke wrote:
>>> anyone know how to install a .tar.gz onto mandriva powerpack 2008?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>
>>
>>> its
>>> not got any right click option and i kinda need it installin pretty
>>> sharpish...
>>
>> Yep, that is some of the problems with only knowing gui.
>>
>>> its a webdevelopment program and if theres one on the mandriva dvd i'll
>>> install it but i couldn't find it when i had a quick mooch.
>>
>> If you mean an html editor, there is NVU, kompozer, bluefish,
>> quanta,...
>>
>> Back to your question, you might want to click up a terminal, and man
>> tar
>>
>> Once you glanced at that, I would suggest
>>
>> mkdir -p $HOME/tmp
>> cd $HOME/tmp
>>
>> tar -zvxf /wherever/fn_her.tar.gz
>>
>> ls -al
>>
>> Do look at the files from the tar archive before proceeding much
>> farther.
>
> yea i did the tar xvzf, cd (whatever), ./configure, make, su (password)
> make install
>
> did ask me to instlal a few packages from the dvd but it works :) woot.
> thanks guys :)

Hmmmm wondering why he didn't run easy urpmi setup. Newbs never seize to
amaze me. :)
--
"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:39:00 GMT, Rich wrote:
>
> Newbs never seize to amaze me. :)

And, others with nothing to contribute, never cease to dismay (or amaze) _me_ !

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:07:37 +0000, Spamm Trappe wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:39:00 GMT, Rich wrote:
>>
>> Newbs never seize to amaze me. :)
>
> And, others with nothing to contribute, never cease to dismay (or amaze)
> _me_ !

You do mean like yourself?

--
Neil
reverse ra and delete l
Linux user 335851

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:40:00 -0600, Neil Ellwood wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:07:37 +0000, Spamm Trappe wrote:
>
> You do mean like yourself?

No, he means like me. B-)

Reading through answers to posts like this one help a relative newb like
myself to build up a diary of commands and suggestions for future
reference.