installing unstopcp.gz

[Michael R. Head]

On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 19:48 -0500, elmo wrote:
> It's been so long since I last installed a tarred  file that I've 
> forgotten how to do it.  That's what you get
> when you rely solely on apt and synaptic package manager for all 
> installations.
> 
> I have "unstopcp.gz"  waiting in /home/elmo.   What do I do to install 
> "unstopcp" ?

Depends. If unstopcp.gz is a compressed file containing an executable
(unstopcp), then just do:
 gunzip unstopcp.gz
 chmod a+x unstopcp
 ./unstopcp

If it's not, then who knows? If it's actually unstopcp.tgz, then usually
you would do:
 tar zxvf unstopcp.tgz
 cd unstopcp

At this point you'd either "./configure; make; sudo make install" or run
unstopcp (depending on if it's just a source tarball or a binary).

> elmo
> 
> 
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Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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