On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 17:46 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Peter Hunter peterslinuxbox@ntlworld.com wrote:
[...] Uncompressing proberbly won't be a problem, but how do I install the file/program from there? More to the point, where can I find instructions that will tell me what to do? [...]
There should be README and INSTALL files in the directory that you unpack. Quite often, they'll tell you to run three commands:
./configure #(sometimes a perl or python command instead) make make install #(this last one as root)and that should nearly always install the software to /usr/local which is more-or-less the system administrator's sandbox (while the directories under /usr directly are for system packages and /opt is for third-party prebuilt packages).
Hope that helps,
Yes, that's a big help. Just one thing, how do I become root without logging out and back in. Do I type su root?
Peter