timesheet installation 100

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 16:03, linuxadmin stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

I'm buttuming it will more correctly be a.tar.gzfile, as it wouldn't be logical to pack up an application or its source code into a single compressed file. There will normally be at least one documentation file next to the code or executable.

Open up a terminal window andcdto the directory where you have downloaded the file. Execute the following command - buttuming the filename is correct...:

tar xvzf sf-timsheet2.0.3.tar.gz

This will typically create a directory called *sf-timsheet2.0.3* in which you will find a *README* file. Read that file and then proceed with the instructions therein.

The archive you have downloaded could be either source code or a working binary, so there is no way for us to tell. But then again, if you're using Fedora Core, why not use an.rpmpackage?

If the program you downloaded was source code, you will most likely have to execute the following commands (from within the directory created when the archive was unpacked)...:

.-configure make

Then - buttuming the configuration and compilation went smoothly - you would need to obtain root privileges to install the software you've just compiled, so you would need to use...:

su

... - and enter the root pbuttword - followed by...

make install

... or if you havesudoset up correctly - I doubt that FC does this - you would do...:

sudo make install

That's it! But somehow I fear that not everything will go as smoothly...

Compiling software is not something you want to start doing as a newbie, since source code is generally quite generic and needs configuration for your specific platform and distribution. That's why most distributions have package managers that let you install pre-compiled packages...

Hope this was helpful... ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)