install tar files

[Sasha Tsykin]

It depends on the file. First you untarand unzip it. Then cd into the
folder. If it has a file in it called configure, type:
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

If it has a file called install.sh but no configure file:
$ sudo sh install.sh

If it does not have either of the above, just run the program in the
folder (a good example for this is skype). eg:
$ ./skype

There are other ways to installed tarred and zipped programs but these
are the most common.