Installing .tar on fedora core 6

[anyweb]

installing tar files is easy

 

wget [/url][url=http://some.website.com/somefile.tar.gz]http://some.website.com/somefile.tar.gz (get some tar.gz file) 

tar -xvzf somefile.tar.gz (decompress the archive, remove the z option if it's not tar.gz)

 

cd somefile (change to the directory that you have extracted the tar to)

 

./configure && make && checkinstall (configure the package and then 'install' it)

 

as always, when you untar a file

 

Code:

tar -xvf somefile.tar

 

read the INSTALL.TXT or README file that is included in the extracted files.

 

cheers

anyweb