[SATLUG] Re: lessons on tar.gz files

[Al Castanoli]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:03:05 -0500
"H. Streit" <hstreit at swri.edu> wrote:

> I would also like to raise the question as to the contents of the 
> ?.tar.gz  in question.  Have you downloaded a source tarball or a
> binary tarball?  There's quite a bit of difference between installing
> the two...

 While the standards for open source installs would be along the lines
of

# tar xzvf foo.tar.gz
# cd foo
# ls

[
Read the INSTALL and/or README files for directions... usually something
like:

#./configure; make; make install
]

but in the case of Oracle 10g Applications Server for Linux, you get
cpio.gz files to deal with, which you gunzip then pipe to a cpio command
to unpack.  No, I am not claiming Oracle is open source, but be prepared
for other standards.

Al Castanoli | afcasta at texas.net
"That's what I love about standards - there are so many different ones
to choose from."