.tgz packages

[sheek]

How do i install these ?
when i run the installpkg command in slack it says that it don't exist
i want to install the base system of slack and just install whatever packages i need manually instead of letting the installer do it :confused:

[anton]

u need to unpack them:
"tar xfvz archive.tgz"
then go to into created directory
and usually, but not always do this:
./configure
make
make install

[Slackmonster]

Maybe this is off base but when you gave the package name did you give the absolute path to the package you are trying to install?

[DMR]

Just as a little background info:

A .tar.gz file is a two-part beast.
The .tar extension indicates that the file actually consists of multiple files wrapped up into one "archive" file (much like Windows' ".cab" files) using the "tar" program. The name is short for Tape ARchive.
The .gz extension means that the archive file has then been compressed using "gzip". You will also run across files with only a .z extension, which means they have been compressed with the older "zip" program.

The "z" option in the tar command anton gave basically tells tar to run the file through gzip first to decompress it. Tar then takes care of extracting (the "x" option) the individual files from the resulting .tar archive.

[mrBen]

A word of caution - the .tgz file extension is used in 2 different ways. For some files, it is an amalgamation of .tar.gz indicating a gzipped and tarred file. However, it also indicates Slackware packages, which, AFAIK, are not the same beast at all.

[sheek]

thanks anton
that post got me looking in the right direction :cool: