Unix

[james collins]

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On Jul 29, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Kyle <kyle4jesus at gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for your help, so far I just wanted to clarify a couple of  
the things you said

> Are you sure this is a .tar file and not a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2?

On my computer it says the name of the file is yasr-0.6.9.tar
> The reason I ask is because YASR is a source distribution, and such  
> files are usually packed as something-x.xx.tar.gz or something- 
> x.xx.tar.bz2, where something is the name of the application and  
> x.xx is the version number. If it's just a tar file without the gz  
> or bz2, you can simply use tar to unpack it with the command you  
> found. If it's tar.gz, you will need to use xzvf instead of xvf, and  
> if it's tar.bz2, you will need to use xjvf instead of xvf. Either  
> way, the YASR source code will be unpacked in a folder called  
> yasr-0.6.9/ under the folder you are in when you unpack it. At that  
> point, you can do

When I do these commands at the command line first I would type
cd yasr-0.6.9 enter
Then I would type
./configure enter
And then i would type
make enter
And finally I would type
Make install enter

I just want to get this right
>
> cd yasr-0.6.9
> ./configure
> make
> make install
>
> and if you have all the proper packages to compile source code,  
> everything should work properly after editing the config file.

I don't know about the packages for building source code either, but I  
don't think it can hurt to try

> Sorry, I don't know what packages come with MacOS for building  
> source code, so you may end up needing to try to find a precompiled  
> binary if it exists.
>
>
> HTH,
> Kyle
>
> -- 
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> I live only to serve You
> Each and every day.
> --Kyle
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