Jan 31, 2009

[HOW TO]Install Program from Source-tar.gz/tar.bz2

When you get a Source code from a program, you must compile it.
the usual steps to do this is:
tar.gz
tar -xzf file_name.tar.gz
cd file_name
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install


tar.bz2
tar -xjf file_name.tar.bz2
cd file_name
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install


you can alway do ./configure --help to see the options for that program, and then you can enable/disable whathever you want

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