On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 21:36 +0100, yahya John Lorenzen wrote: > Hello > > I neeed help to install tar.gz files on my computer. > > i have no idea about how to use terminal window so please show me some > screenshots.. If you have no idea how to use a terminal window, you probably don't want to be messing with .tar.gz (or .tgz) archives. Screenshots would be less useful than text instructions and pointers to howtos. A reasonable starting point might be http://www.fedorafaq.org/ As Chris Hewitt points out, the first step should always be to see what's available in the core distribution or one of the many 3rd party repositories. (See above link and branch out from there.) If you absolutely need something that's not packaged in an RPM, a good start would be "man tar" (in a terminal window). Then you will need to learn about "su -" to get root privileges, and the standard file structure and paths. You might then be ready to ask about installing a specific tar archive. Good luck, Phil
