Install?

[Willis]

andy baxter wrote:
> Willis wrote:
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>> Caleb Marcus wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 00:23 -0600, Willis wrote:
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>>>> Thanks Tony.  I have the Gnome Bible and it is not satisfactory at all 
>>>> for serious work and when I apt-get the Bibletime the Adept Manager 
>>>> reports it is unable to find it.
>>>>
>>>> As for the ter balls I have unzipped them to files and found nothing to 
>>>> install them with and I just put them into a directory to wait for an 
>>>> answer.
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>>> What game, and what's the name of the bible program? 
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>> Ubuntu Linux Bible and Flight Gear-0.9.10.  Please bear with me and help 
>> me learn what to do with a tar ball and do not try to teach me the local 
>> idiot way of doing this.  I know Windows inside out and I am abandoning 
>> MS in favor of Linux and I'm not the type that ever trys to insist that 
>> everything be perfectly simple.  I enjoy a challenge.
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> A tarball is a compressed archive of files and no more. It may contain 
> various things - there could be an installer, but more usual is for it 
> to contain either raw data files, if you're just downloading something 
> like the bible data, or else a program that you usually need to compile 
> before you can install it.
>
> In the second case, look for a script in the top level of the unpacked 
> tarball called 'configure' - usually what you need to do is something like:
>
> sudo -i
> cd <path to unpacked tarball>
> ./configure --help
> # now read the help before doing
> ./configure <any options you want to add>
> make
> make install
>
> This will compile the program and install it - usually to /usr/local/bin.
>
> andy
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Thank you Andy, I'll print this out.