Installing Source files

Sources files comes as ".tar.gz", "tar.bz2" and ".zip" files. So what we want to do is unzip these zip files. It is better to use "usr/local/src" directory to unzip them.

• For .tar.gz -> use : tar -zxvf < file_name_of_zip>
• For tar.bz2 -> use : tar -jxvf < file_name_of_zip>
• For .zip -> use : unzip < file_name_of_zip>

Now go in to the unzip file directory and issue follwing commands.(It is better read README.txt or INSTALL.txt files before you installing the source packages).

• First configure the source -> ./configure
• Then compile the source -> make
• Last install the source -> make install
• To clean up temp files -> make clean