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One way to install software
is by using Compress Tarball.

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That's an archive that is
compressed with the TAR utility.

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Now it's kind of a surprise. You need to uncompress
the package and then you need to find out what

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it has. That might be a setup script, it
might be source files, it might be so much more.

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Best thing to do is check if there's a
readme file that is giving you more specific instructions.

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Now, to get the software on your computer,
you need to install it, and that might

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involve compiling it as well. And compiling makes
software ready to run on a specific platform.

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Being open source, compiling on Linux is quite common because
that makes that software that has been written in a generic

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way will work on your platform no matter what it
is. But compiling is kind of a lot of work.

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You need different tools like the
SQL compiler, GCC and the make utility.

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The disadvantage of this strategy
is that there is no central

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registration of software that was
installed this way on your computer.

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And fortunately, nowadays this is becoming
increasingly uncommon. That's why I'm not

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going to demonstrate and we are
going to talk about software packages.