linux 下安装软件的那点事儿

Understanding software Installation (configure, make, make install)
This
tutorial is aimed at those who have just started using Linux.
Generally when users from the Windows background enter the Linux
scene,they are totally stumped by the software installation method.
They were used to the luxury of double clicking on a single file
and getting their software installed. But now they have to type
cryptic commands to do the same.

Though the installation instructions tell them what to do, they
have no idea what those steps actually do
. This article
shall explain the basics of software installation. After reading
this article you would feel more at home when installing your
next software.

Generally beginners tend to search desperately for RPMs since
installing RPMs is a real simple task. But this article doesn't
talk about RPMs. It deals with the softwares that you generally
get in the zipped formats as tarballs.


Details :


Generally you would get Linux software in the tarball format
(.tgz) This file has to be uncompressed into any directory using
tar command. In case you download a new tarball by the name game.tgz,
then you would have to type the following command

$ tar xfvz game.tgz


This would create a directory within the current directory
and unzip all the files within that new directory. Once this is
complete the installation instructions ask you to execute the
3 (now famous) commands : configure, make