need some help abt app installation

[Jay D]

See 
http://www.loscompanion.com/howtos/installing_tarballs/installing_tarballs.html 
and also
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers.php?action=viewarticle&artid=15

Read through the links.  By the way, I'm new to linux also.  But to find the 
first link I just did a google.com search for: "how to install applications" 
AND .gz AND linux

Try googling yourself and you'll get lots of information that will help you. 
  Google is your friend.  ".exe" files are windows only.  If you Linux 
inxtallations often result in being able to run the program by typing its 
name at the command prompt (ie "netscape").  When you "unpack" the tarballs 
(see the above link) they're will be README files with specific 
instructions.

cheers,

jay


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Dany Gates" <dany_gates_universal at hotmail.com>
Reply-To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
To: redhat-install-list at redhat.com
Subject: need some help abt app installation
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:58:06 +0000

hi, i am new to linux and have installed red hat 9 on my pc. now i have 
downloaded new mp3 player for linux snackAmp with *.gz file extension. Now i 
am from windows background and don't know anything abt linux installation. 
So how am i supposed to install this application (any application). Plz help 
me am i supposed to compile it or something first or else what??????????   
do i get an exe file for execution??
I know how to go to terminal window (like console in windows ) . Isn't there 
in application installation GUI in linux red hat 9???? i have downlaoded 
many apps but dont know how to install them. Plz give me steps for 
installlation if u can but not any link!!   What will be the extension of 
executable file???
reply soon.........

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