[CLUE-Tech] If I want to install a program to extract "rar" files?

[David Anselmi]

Joe Linux wrote:
> http://linux.tucows.com/system/preview/48140.html
> 
> The instructions (?) are as follows:
> 
> 
> ###################################################################
> # Installing RAR executables, configuration files and SFX modules #
> # to appropriate directories                                      #
> ###################################################################
> 
> PREFIX=/usr/local
> 
> install:
>    cp rar unrar $(PREFIX)/bin
>    cp rarfiles.lst /etc
>    cp default.sfx $(PREFIX)/lib

These aren't instructions, it's a makefile which tells make what to do. 
  After you unpack the tar.gz file, you cd to the rar directory and type 
"make install" as root.  That will move the various important files to 
where they belong (in /usr/local, except for rarfiles.lst).

Dave