Re: Appropriately Expanding a .tar.gz File

["Aaron D. Turner" <aturner best com>]

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Kurt,

You realize you have to *compile* mutt before it will work? :-)

There's probably a 'configure' script, which you run.  Run:
./configure --help 

for help.  Then run 'make' and if it compiles correctly 'make install'.

Generally, things like this get installed in /usr/local/bin

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On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, Kurt Harper wrote:

> There is a slough of files that come out of that tar.gz
> file. My first thought is to make a subdirectory of /usr/bin/ 
> --where the present mutt executable resides-- and expand
> the files into it, then to put a symbolic link to the mutt
> executable in the mutt subdirectory into /usr/bin/. Is that the 
> proper way to do it? 


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