how to install a tar file with a command?

Question

im search on many website to install it.but they sad if there is a INSTALL file,but in my file there no such of that named file.so,is there a way to install it from terminal?

Answer 1

First, you must extract the tar file, you can use something like this,

tar -xvzf filename

go into the extracted directory using cd.

There is several ways to install the program, depends on the program files. But the most common one is using these commands below,

./configure
make
sudo make install

Or using the easy_install from python.