Understanding Packages

[James Knott]

Geoffrey Hunter wrote:
> Hello:
>        I'm trying to understand what a "package" (.tar) is, why applications
> are (usually) supplied as a package, and how/when the components of the package
> are loaded and executed when the application is active.  If you know of a text 
> that really explains this, giving me the URL (or other reference - say a book) 
> would be the best way to answer this query.

The purpose of a "package", is to keep all the files together, in a 
directory structure in one easily used place.  It's used in the same 
manner as the ZIP files etc.  Also tar was originally used with tapes 
(Tape ARchive).
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml