so you downloaded a program or a script for you linux computer and its in the .tar format, how do you install it in your linux server, we will show you

lets say you have an open source script called example.tar.gz

the first thing you need to do is extract the files from the .tar.gz file

once you uncompressed the files, you will most likely find a file called configure so this is the commands i would do

# configure

# make

# make install