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Saturday, July 9, 2011

How To Compile From Source tar.gz File (How To Install tar.gz)


How To Compile From Source tra.gz File

In Linux we go many softwares as sources and we want to compile it for install it .
First u need to extract the tgz archive (extension is tgz or tar.gz) to the home directory and open the directory we got by extracting archive , from this directory right-click and click Open in Terminal or open a Terminal and type cd .
OK we are now ready to compile , type ./configure on the terminal , if we got any error due to missing dependencies , install it from the synaptic package manager (or any other package manager's depending upon your Linux distribution) and enter the ./configure command again , after successful configure type make , after the making process type make install , after compiling you can use the software .
Note ; Error due to missing dependencies in all the process in compilation can be solved by install the missing dependencies .

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