Please help with linux for a newbie

[Blayze]

I am in dire straights... it is sad, but i have linux working and am finding difficulty installing software. it is downloaded as a tar.gz file, and i am running a kde platform. it is not an rpm package that i can see.

so how do i install it?
please help..

 

[Damaged]

personally I move the tarballs into the /tmp directory, the create a directory for them.

After that it's tar -xzvf foo.tar.gz. Then look for the README and INSTALL files and READ them!

Usually though it's just a matter of ./configure and make install. But...read the directions!

 

[awal]

just curious but what are you trying to install?

 

[claiomh]

i was helping him and we were trying to install KXicq