Subject: Re: Good tar.gz app
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 21:42:52 MST
If a program requires just a binary file to run (i.e. no included libraries
etc.) once you untar and ungzip it, you can just move the binary to /bin, or
/usr/bin, somewhere in your path. If it does require certain files to placed
somewhere in the system, then most people put INSTALL shell scripts with
them.. and they will do the actual installation for you.
as for the shell being "confusing and lame"... this IS Linux.. this IS a
Unix OS. Yes there are GUIs to make some things easier to do (file
management, and graphical programs) but the shell is still Unix's main
interface.. you can't separate Unix from the shell, it is no longer Unix
then.
As for the programs not running.. try going
cd <path to compiled program>
./<program name>
I would recommend reading the man pages for tar, gzip and gunzip, or buying
a book about Linux. You can't not use the shell. When I first used Linux in
1997, it took me a month to get used to the shell, and ever since then..
it's earned my respect in the computing world.
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"The knack to flying is learning how to
throw yourself at the ground and miss."
>From "Life the Universe and Everything"
by Douglas Adams
Robert Fout
MacOS Guru and MkLinux/Yellowdog Linux User
rfout@damien.edu
http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/
ICQ# 48433406
> From: Jeff Tillwick <jeffat00@bellsouth.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 23:19:55 -0500
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject: Re: Good tar.gz app
>
> Oh, where do i begin! Lets see, first off, Archiver does indeed decompress
> tar.gz files, yet i have yet to see its ability to compile and correctly
> install the program
>
> Secondly, using the shell is so confusing and lame, if we have a graphical
> interface environment, why not take advantage of it, i compiled and
> installed kicq and klicq and xawtv in the shell and as far as i can tell, i
> did it correctly, yet the programs wont load up and the commands do
> absolutely nothing both and the command line and in the terminal.
>
>> and what's wrong with with opening a terminal up and using the shell?
>> ---------------------------------------
>> "The knack to flying is learning how to
>> throw yourself at the ground and miss."
>>
>>> From "Life the Universe and Everything"
>> by Douglas Adams
>>
>> Robert Fout
>> MacOS Guru and MkLinux/Yellowdog Linux User
>> rfout@damien.edu
>> http://osx.damien.edu/rfout/
>> ICQ# 48433406
>>
>>> From: Stew Benedict <stewb@earthlink.net>
>>> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>>> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 22:53:05 -0500 (EST)
>>> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>>> Subject: Re: Good tar.gz app
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What's wrong with the KDE archiver?
>>>
>>> Stew Benedict
>>>
>>> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Jeff Tillwick wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> i have a mission for any programmer out
>>> there:
>>>>
>>>> Write a program for kde that compiles and installs tar.gz files easily and
>>>> completely without going through the shell
>>>>
>>>> AND FOR PPC yellow dog linux
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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