If they said 'untar in root', they probably meant to copy the .tar file to the / directory: cp filename / then untar it: tar -xvf filename and it will then extract it into some subdirectories. Since it's not a packaged file (rpm, tgz, deb, etc), then you may want to take note of which files were extracted and where they ended up, in case you need to uninstall it later. Michael Vieths Foeclan at Visi.com Jackie LaVaque wrote: >Howdy, > >A friend gave me a CD with some very cool astronomical charting/graphing >software on it, called "Xephem". I would like to install it on my Mac-based >Yellow Dog Linux system, but unfortunately, friend gave me a one-line >cryptic sentence as installation instructions ("untar in root) and I don't >know what to do next. I have no experience installing software in Linux and >friend is unavailable this weekend for installation instructions. > >Can someone tell me what to do to get this thing installed? Basically I need >to know what to type after I put the CD in the drive... from what I >understand, "tar" is sort of like a "zip" deal, where the program needs to >be "untarred" (unzipped) to install... but I don't know how to "untar" >anything. I'm a real green newbie to Linux... can anyone help? > >Thanks! > >Jackie >-- >"All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars." - >Oscar Wilde > >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >