can someone explain tar.gz files

[Justbill 0]

I've been downloading some games for my kids. Some of them are tar.gz files, how do I get the game to install in SuSE 9.3? I would like to make the games available system wide. RPM files are easy, I just open a terminal and su

 

yast2 -i <filename>.rpm

 

and its done! but these aren't rpm's, and I don't know what to do with them.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated

 

Thanks

Justbill

[Relic 0]

Try this out, hope it does the trick for you

 

http://xxx.sissa.it/faq/tarfaq.html

[Justbill 0]

OK, that explained how to unpack it, how do I install the game from there?

 

Thanks

Justbill

[Relic 0]

Man, I'm lost after getting it unpacked, I'm strictly a Windoze guy, XP Pro specifically, no Linux for this dude. I suggest trying out these forums, probably get an answer quicker, good luck

 

http://www.linuxcompatible.org/index.php

[Justbill 0]

Here we go again! I posted this on linux compatible ( and I'm viewing it on linux compatible). How do my posts get mixed around on these boards?

 

Justbill

[Relic 0]

Originally posted by Justbill:

Quote:

Here we go again! I posted this on linux compatible ( and I'm viewing it on linux compatible). How do my posts get mixed around on these boards?

 

Justbill

 

Man!!! I'm viewing this on NTCompatible. This is sitting in "Slack Space", maybe that's why it's viewable from both forums. Sorry I can't help out any more, once again, good luck.

[Justbill 0]

Thanks for your help Relic! Maybe a mod will notice this and get me in the right forum.

 

Justbill

[iamroot 0]

If a package is a tarball, most likely its source code. You can install the package by typing this into the terminal:

 

./configure

make

make install