<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 96.1-c (Feb 29, 1996) by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Extracting the binary distribution</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY LANG="EN"> <A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node243.html">Building sendmail.cf</A> <B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node241.html">Installing sendmail</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node241.html">Installing sendmail</A> <BR> <P> <H2><A NAME="SECTION0017510000">Extracting the binary distribution</A></H2> <P> First, you have to unpack the archive file in some safe location: <P> <P><P> <P> If you have a ``modern'' tar, for example from a recent Slackware Distribution, you can probably just do a tar -zxvf filename.tgz and get the same results. <P> Unpacking the archive creates a directory named sendmail5.65b+IDA1.5+mailx5.3b. In this directory, you find a complete installation of sendmail+IDA plus a binary of the mailx user agent. All file paths below this directory reflect the location where the files should be installed, so it's safe to work up a tar command to move 'em over: <P> <P><P><BR> <HR> <P><ADDRESS> <I>Andrew Anderson <BR> Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>