Installing applications

[vaughan]

OK so I managed to d/l RSAttak576 for Linux. The client has a name like client-filename.tar.gz
I ran gzip on it and got a filename that is client-filename.tar
Now how do I install it? I tried ./client-filename.tar but that didn't work. I get bash blahblah: permission denied.

[c17simtech]

With a filename.tar you have to do:

tar -xvf filename.tar

that should give you a directory like

filename/

change directory into that directory and there should be a README
file or a INSTALL file to show you how to install the app.

As a side note instead of doing gzip -d filename.tar.gz you could do this:

tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz


This will uncompress the file and un-tar it all in one command


HTH

c17simtech