This is a short tutorial on how you can install softwares from packages of tar.gz or tar.bz2 extension.<\/p>\n
Basically 5 steps<\/p>\n
1) Uncompress\u00a0 and Extract Packages<\/strong><\/p>\n for ‘tar.gz’\u00a0\u00a0 — ><\/p>\n yo@home:~$ <\/span>tar -zxvf package_name.tar.gz<\/strong><\/p>\n for ‘tar.bz2’ —– ><\/p>\n yo@home:~$ <\/span> tar -jxvf package_name.tar.bz2<\/strong><\/p>\n 2) Change to the extracted directory<\/strong><\/p>\n yo@home:~$ <\/span>cd package_name<\/strong><\/p>\n yo@home:~\/package_name$<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n 3) Configuring<\/strong><\/p>\n yo@home:~\/package_name$ <\/span>.\/configure<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n This creates a MakeFile which is the needed for the next step, which is building.( Make sure that no errors are reported while configuring so as to move to the next step.)<\/p>\n 4) Building<\/strong><\/p>\n yo@home:~\/package_name$ <\/span>make<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n 5) Installing<\/strong><\/p>\n You need to be the root user to install the software.<\/p>\n yo@home:~\/package_name$ <\/span>su –<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n root@home:~\/package_name#<\/span> make install<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n The above command will install the desired software to the default location if everything goes fine. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\nPassword:<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n