HOW TO INSTALL MOST SOFTWARE ON YOUR LINUX BOX 2

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Now, if you want to use the easy way out instead of all the above tarball crap, you can always see if you can install the software using yum or rpm.

Examples:

rpm -qa lame

where lame is the name of the software.

You can also do:

yum install lame

or if you can't find the package still:

yum install lame*

try the 3 ways and if you can't find it, you can always get the source tarball files and install it manually. :)