How to Install Source Files in Ubuntu
For all those who are beginners in any linux(ubuntu) find hard to find the package files of their distro and end up in finding an source package(which is either in tar.gz or .gz). lets now see how would you be installing source files in ubuntu.
source files contain the programs and hence before the installation you need to compile them… so you need to install the build-essentials from the synaptic package manager…. else this build-essentials is already present in the cd.. and so you can install it…..else you can install it typing it in the terminal by
sudo aptitude install build-essentials
suppose you have a source file name src.tar.gz, what you do initially is that you need to extract the source files and then in the terminal…
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