[ubuntu-in] Help to Install!..

[Satish Chandra]

On 1/9/07, sri ram <sri.kmb at gmail.com> wrote:
>  How to install .tar.gz file in debian (edubuntu)? Help me!..
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tar.gz files are nothing but compressed files (similar to .zip files).
Regarding installing the software from source, you'll have to compile
it yourself and install it. But as Onkar has mentioned, it might
already be there in the Ubuntu repos.

This link has some good pointers on installing software in Ubuntu
http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/

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Regards,
Satish