Installing Software

[Sathish Kumar J]

Each Linux distro comes with its own package manager.
However, in machines with no internet connection, package managers are
of little use.
So the only solution is to download from another machine and install
in ur machine without using package managers.
When u download a software from Internet for Linux, it is usually
in .tar.bz2 or .tar.gz format.
I'l brief on how to install those softwares.

1)Login as SuperUser
2)Navigate to the directory containing the setup file
3)To unzip:
->For files ending in .tar.gz ===> tar -zxvf <filename>
->For files ending in .tar.bz2===> tar -jxvf <filename>
->For files ending in .zip ===> unzip <filename>
4)Go to the unzipped directory using 'cd'
5)Use the readme file in the unzipped directory to get further
instructions on how to proceed the installation.
6)Typically it'l be as follows.
more INSTALL
./configure
make
make install
That's it!
Check the user documentation of the software you installed for details
of how to run the application.


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[Ahmed Bilal Jan]

nice article!!!