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Now that you know how to create and decompress "zipped tarball archives", we will demonstrate how to install applications from websites containing these types of archives. Although this method is not as "user-friendly" as using the yum or rpm command, this method is useful if the application is NOT contained in regular software repositories...

{{Admon/note|Use fedora2|Perform these steps in the '''fedora2''' virtual machine.}}

# Issue the following command to install a basic set of development tools and libraries:<br /><br /> <code>yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Development Libraries"</code>.

{{Admon/note|Installing Development Libraries|In the future, remember the above procedure whenever installing software from source. Sometimes, you need to install additional tools or libraries in order to compile a particular software package}}

#Go to the directory <code>/tmp</code>