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Maeve Morton
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Asked: 2022-04-18T02:55:47+00:00 In:

How to install tar file in linux?

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How to install tar file in linux? Can you give me some suggestions?

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Idea for “install tar file in linux”: There are ways to install tar files in Linux, but to be more transparent. Here we will only focus on one.

Here is our case study:

Download the desired .tar.gz or (.tar.bz2) file
Open Terminal
Extract the .tar.gz or (.tar.bz2) file with the following commands
tar xvzf PACKAGENAME.tar.gz
tar xvjf PACKAGENAME.tar.bz2
Navigate to the extracted folder using cd command
cd PACKAGENAME
Now run the following command to install the tarball
./configure
make
sudo make install
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  1. tar -xzf archive-name.tar.gz
cd archive-name
./configure
make
sudo make install
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  2. Hope that my example would help

    tar jvxf whatever.tar.bz2 
cd whatever/ 
./configure 
make 
sudo make install
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