Re: installing packages

[Peter Paluch <peterp@frcatel.utc.sk>]

Hello,
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>      How do you go about installing packages that are gzipped, and don't
>      have .deb extensions?

If they are only gzipped, then there is only file inside the .gz file, and
you unzip it using gunzip, like :

gunzip name_of_the_file.gz

However, if the files end with .tar.gz or with .tgz, then you have to use
tar to extract files from this archive, and you do it this way:

tar xpzvf name_of_the_file.tar.gz

It is very often better to install a package than to install from these
archives, as they can contain pure source files which you have to compile
and arrange inside your system. In the .deb packages that is already done.

All the best,
Peter

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