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Unpacking An Archive: Unzip Some - Software - Zip - D /TMP

This document provides instructions for unpacking archive files and installing software. It explains that the tar, unzip, and related commands can be used to extract files from archives with different compression types, and that configuring, building, and installing software can be done with the ./configure, make, and make install commands in that order. A directory is also created for extracted or installed files.

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Unpacking An Archive: Unzip Some - Software - Zip - D /TMP

This document provides instructions for unpacking archive files and installing software. It explains that the tar, unzip, and related commands can be used to extract files from archives with different compression types, and that configuring, building, and installing software can be done with the ./configure, make, and make install commands in that order. A directory is also created for extracted or installed files.

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Unpacking an archive

tar zxf some_software.tar.gz tar -xjf some_software.tar.bz2


unzip some_software.zip -d /tmp

Dot and trailing slash indicate that the script will be executed within the current directory. ./install.pl

you just need to remember three simple commands: This first command will generates files required to build the software and setup system-wide parameters. ./configure This second command will build the libraries and applications. make This third command will install the libraries and applications. make install

mkdir /media/data

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