From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 00:16:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 91C5284E for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 00:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55EC924FE for ; Thu, 29 May 2014 00:16:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-4-63.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.4.63]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 583C23DF37; Thu, 29 May 2014 02:16:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s4T0G9VP003682; Thu, 29 May 2014 02:16:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 02:16:09 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Eric Rapilly Subject: Re: tar gz Message-Id: <20140529021609.8958c4cc.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <53863BDD.7060509@orange.fr> References: <53863BDD.7060509@orange.fr> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 00:16:12 -0000 On Wed, 28 May 2014 21:41:17 +0200, Eric Rapilly wrote: > Hello, I hope that everything is OK for you. My problem is that i'have > got a package like i18n-fr.tar.gz, i.e a package for french language. Which software does this belong to? > I > believe Ill have to compile it. Why do you believe this? A .tar.gz file is just a compressed archive that can contain anything. Some of those files do not even have to be uncompressed and extracted - some programs process them in this form (comparable to compressed manpages). Try the command % tar tvzf i18n-fr.tar.gz | less do check what's in this file. The options here are t = test, v = verbose, z = gzip (un)compression, f = filename, and the actual filename of course. See "man tar" for details. > What are the step to be followed? If you > could be very accurate, I'll appreciate . Bye and thanks It depends. Sometimes, % ./configure % make % make install is possible, maybe requiring further options for the "configure" script, and sometimes you need to run % gmake instead of make. But in order to compile and install software, you should use the means provided by the ports collection, i. e., install the software via the ports tree, a port management tool like portmaster, or from a binary package with pkg. You'll find more information about this topic in The FreeBSD Handbook. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...