how do i do a make install

[theyneverknew]

I downloaded the Wireless Tools 26 from wireless tools . Anyway its a .tar.gz and i decompressed that, but now I have a bunch of .h and .c files along with some other stuff and the readme says to try a make install, how would i do that? :confused: Man this Linux is confusing :?: real interesting though, btw im on Mandrake 9.1

[kane2g]

you got yourself a tarball. now you need to compile it.
Maybe you should read some of the links that were posted in the other thread.

[Grim Reaper]

Yeah, read some documentation about it, but the simple order of commands that usually works for the majority of programs:

all done from within the root directory of the program
eg:
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tar zxvf filename.tgz
cd filename
./configure
make
make install
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Hope thats of some help to you.

[theyneverknew]

yup i got it figured out :) gotta remember to RTFM :o