installing software

**coolmego** · August 31st, 2011

I downloaded tarball for vlc , now i don't know how tom install it. please get me the step-by step procedure to do it..
am using FEDORA

**mikewhatever** · August 31st, 2011

Why not ask at http://fedoraforum.org/?
We support Ubuntu here.

**kyletstrand** · August 31st, 2011

First off, this should maybe be moved to Other Distro section.

But anyways, open up a terminal and move to the location where your tar.gz file is.

Type and run

Code:

tar zxvf <yourfile.tar.gz>

which will unpack your file.

Then you need to change to the newly unpacked folder.

Code:

cd <folder of unpacked tar.gz>

Then you simply need to follow these three commands, letting each do their thing before typing the new one.

Code:

./configure
make
make install

If you get an error for the last command, you may have to give root permission, which would simply be

Code:

sudo make install

Hope that helps!

**madjr** · August 31st, 2011

isnt there an rpm for fedora?

**beew** · August 31st, 2011

VLC is in the RPM fusion repo. Just add it and install it with Add/Remove (or Yumex if you have installed it

)

http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

Fedora doesn't include software with non free components in its official repository and VLC has non free codecs so it wouldn't make it into there. RPM fusion is where all the good stuffs are.

**coolmego** · August 31st, 2011

@kyletstrand: Thanks for your reply.I tried ./configure , it works after that other commands do not work

Here is the notification it shows :

"[sd_coolmego@coolmego vlc-1.1.9]$ sudo make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
"

"[sd_coolmego@coolmego vlc-1.1.9]$ make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
"