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[connorfranciswillcocks]

Can someone give me some help on this,

Say i want to install any Tar.pkg or any other package made for linux, What is the Standard procedure to compile using the Terminal,

can you give me it step by step

i have tried http://puppylinux.org/wikka/compiling But i cant get to grips with it, i need it simpler lol

All i need is how to compile even if it does not have all the dependencies as i can get them later, i just want to find it installed in the usual bin folder.

Thanks In Advance Connor

[runtt21]

After you unpack the .tar.gz if it has a autogen.sh file you run this:

[muggins]

[connorfranciswillcocks]

Thanks muggins and runtt21.

Here is something else i wrote what worked for me. Hope you can understand

tar zxvf package.tar.gz ///// tgz or tar.gz
tar jxvf package.bz2 /////for bz2

Locate Directory Of Package

“Cd ~/my-documents”

then run “tar zxvf package.tar.gz this will extract

Now move into directory of extracted file

CD~/my-documents/extractedpackagename

Then enter ./configure
Then enter make

If you want to do both enter;

./configure && make

[darkcity]

some packages just contain binaries that don't need compiling, others contain source code.

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some compiling info which may be useful-

if you want to make a Puppy native package its called a PET

after make

you can use

new2dir instead of make install

clicking on pet installs it.

more info here
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/new2dir

[connorfranciswillcocks]

[runtt21]