Firstly i hope this is the correct place to post this question ? I have installed suse 10. I am a novice to linux and suse 10. I am now downloading software that i would like to install including f-secure anti virus for linux. Could somebody please give me a complete newby info on how to install tgz files that i have downloaded to my documents folder. I have no idea how to execute an install ? Should i be installing from my documents or from some other location ? Is there software that will automate the instalation of tgz files. What i am looking for is a simple explanation on how to commence instalation on new software and where to install it too. Thank you in advance to the moderators for your time and expertise. simon Discover a world without frontiers
Basic UNIX/LINUX commands mkdir: Make a Directory rm [-rf]: Remove files history [-c]: View Recently used commands the -c to clear it fsck: Filesystem consistency check and repair kill <process>: Stops a process from running passwd: Change the password rmdir: Delete a Directory who: prints all users logged on whoami: Prints Current user ID *remember man is good to you... its the MANUAL* cd <directory> Change directory to <directory> Note: ../ is to go back a directory. chmod a+x <file> Change permission of file to all + excecute. ls List the stuff in this directory. rm <file> Delete <file>. Note: You may need command 2. top shows top processes, use kill -9 [PID] to kill process in top if oyu type k it writes kill vi <file> Edit file in vi text editor Note: Type ":qa!" without the quotes and press enter to quit WITHOUT saving. ./<file> Excecute <file>. mv <file> <newfilename> Rename <file> to <newfilename>. Note: If the new file name has a directory in it as in "../Desktop/file.txt" will move the file back one directory into desktop and name it file.txt. su Become root. Note: sudo <command> is a command to do a function as root. shutdown now Shutdown the computer... NOW! cc <file> Compile c source code. Note: gcc <file> is another compiler. pwd - displays the path to your current directoy. cd /usr/share/, then pwd, would result in: /usr/share. clear - clears everything from your console screen cat - cat <filename> echos the content of a file to your console window less - echos the contents of a file to the window one page at a time, advanced by spacebar. Those are the basic commands... for more indetailed advice, goto to this website. It has a detailed overview of ALL the current linux commands http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/
First you should get used to the command line. Log in as root. Now let's say you have the file example.tgz in the /tmp directory. Do this: Code: cd /tmp tar xvfz example.tgz This would unpack example.tgz, most probably in a directory called "example" (you can check with Code: ls -la ). Now go to that new directory: Code: cd example Now run Code: ls -la to see what's in that directory. Normally you have a README or INSTALL file in there which tells you what to do. You can read that file with vi: Code: vi README (To learn how to use vi, have a look here: http://www.howtoforge.com/faq/12_15_en.html )