Hi All,

Installing the Tarball's are easy when if you installed the developement tools.
please make sure that the follow are be in place,

1) Gnu C Compiler formly know as gcc

2) flex,lex,make,gmake,automake etc

3) C

4) bycc

5) bison etc

6) then you can go through the README & INSTALL Documents for the specific software u r trying to install.

7)take the help of ./configure script (i.e) ./configure --help

while you are configuring if its gives any error, then try to resolv that issue 1 st . then configure.

then use "make" command.here also u may facing some problem b'cz of unavilablity of developement tool.

9) once if u successfully finished the above steps, then u can go for a "make install" command.make install command simply copies the file's, program's,libreries etc into specific installation --PREFIX directories.

10) Finally do not forget to update ur $PATH variable.b'cz sometime's u cant get those commands just u compiled previously.otherwise u have to issue the absolute path.

thanks,
aaru

Note:

Suppose if u want compile software developed in "PHP, Perl,Python" etc then you should have installed those software 1 st before proceed to compile software.