QUOTE (enyatara @ Jun 19 2006, 12:13 AM)

Help please someone. Have been a windows user for a long time. Now have suse linux 10.1 on 2nd hd. Here need a little help please. Sound is not correct but have a tar file, vision also not right also have a tar file. cannot get on line also have a tar for this. My problem is have read through suse help and no instructions on how to install a new program other than from set-up disc.
If you've got a tar.gz (tar-gzipped file) of a program then mostly its the source code of that program. You need to compile and then build that program. Here are the steps to do that :
Open up terminal. FIrst go to the folder you have your tar.gz file. Then extract files from the tar.gz archive :
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tar -xvzf <program name>.tar.gz
if its tar.bz2 then try
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tar -xvjf <program name>.tar.bz2
Then you can navigate to the program directory..
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cd <program name>
Now do the following steps :
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./configure # this will configure the program to compile in your machine
make # this compiles the software
To install the program you need to be root.
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su # become a superuser (root)
<enter root password>
Then just install the program by
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make install
After that you may choose to delete the source directory by
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cd ..
rm -r <prog name> # recursively removes all the files in the directory
If you've got a RPM file then you can easily install it by
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su # become root again
<enter root password>
rpm -ivh <package name>.rpm # installs new package
rpm -Uvh <package name>.rpm # if you are upgrading a package already existing
If you get some dependancy error (package missing) in any of the above steps just note the package name and search for it in Yast or
http://rpm.pbone.net or do a simple google search and install it..
Please have a look at
http://www.faqs.org/contrib/yal/page7faq.htm