From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 30 20:38:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E24B837B698 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 20:38:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from WhizKid (r1.bfm.org [216.127.220.97]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:40:56 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20010130222729.009c77a0@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:27:29 -0600 To: Julio Galicia , newbies@FreeBSD.ORG From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: tar.gz In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 19:18 30-01-2001 -0600, Julio Galicia wrote: >i've got a xxx.tar.gz. How do i install this program? > >i need use pkg_add or uncompress it and do "make"? It's not a program, it's a compressed archive (similar to a .zip file under DOS). There is no one way to tell what to do with it. For example, it can be dowloaded, uncompressed, and dearchived by a make file (as in the ports collection). Or you need to do it manually. See "man gzip" on how to uncompress it, then "man tar" how to extract files from the archive. Adam --- Whiz Kid Technomagic - brand name computers for less. See http://www.whizkidtech.net/pcwarehouse/ for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message