Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> Okay, here's a question.
> I find an interesting program at sourceforge.net
> I downlaod a  blah.tgz    or blah.tar.gz.
> I then say Extract to new directory named blah
> I then got a lot of garbage-- it looks like a bunch of libraries and man, 
> po, src, etc, CVS subdirectories but no bloody app!  What's the deal??

Normaly the following commands should do the job:

    ./configure
    make
    make install

The last one you have to do as root. With this method you loose the 
advantage of the apt-system to smoothly remove the application if it's 
not needed anymore. Sometimes a "make uninstall" is available.

Anyway the best was is to find a debian package for installing.

Just my two eurocents,

Bonsai

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