Help with linux mandrake 8.0 for a newbie.

[Bellweather]

I just installed linux and I'm just starting to play around with it, so please bear with me. I downloaded a theme from kds.themes.org, and the file is a .tar.gz file. Where can I find out what this file is (archive, compression?) and what to do with it. Your help is appreciated.

 

[viguru]

Do a man tar and read up on tar, because you will use it all the time

but this command should work for you.....

tar xvzf <filename>

 

[Ace69]

<< tar xvzf <filename> >>


After you do this, it will probably extract a directory out for you. cd into that directory and find the executable file called install or something similar to that. You can find exectutables by doing a ls -l. Also make sure to read the README that is usually accompanied with most sources.

 

[Koeppster]

Well, if it's a KDE theme, there won't be any ./configure; make; make install required. It should just be images and such. If I'm not mistaken KDE has its own built-in theme installer, which if memory serves can handle a properly tarred and gzipped file. Check that out.

kde.themes.org also has a sort-of FAQ page that you should look over.

 

[Bellweather]

Thank you all.