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Subject: Re: [aclug-L] How to install games and other programs with the INSTALL command...
From: "Clint A. Brubakken" <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 09:10:07 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-to: aclug-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx

More accurately, unless they are rpm you'll have to install them by hand.

most of the time, you cd to the directory, 
./configure
make
then as root :
make install

there should be a README, and a INSTALL file, read (less) them and they
will tell you what to do.

Clint



-- 
Clint Brubakken
Computer Science Services Group, LLC
Wichita, KS
cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxxx
---
"People get annoyed when you try to debug them."

  -- Larry Wall (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)

On Thu, 20 May 1999, Jeff wrote:

> On Wed, 19 May 1999, Patrick Klee wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >     I am currently running RedHat 5.2, kernal 2.0.36 and I downloaded
> > and online game and a chat program.  I successfully unzipped them, but
> > now I need to install them with an INSTALL command.  How do
> > I successfully install these programs?
> 
> Are you thinking of
> "make"
> and
> "make install"
> ?
> 
> If you can find RPM versions of these programs, it'll be easier to upgrade
> or remove them later. Install RPMs with 'rpm -Uvh filename.rpm'.
> 
> -jeff
> 


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