Once you have made a committment to install NCSA's Web server, known as httpd, you must locate it, acquire it, uncompress and untar it and prepare for the compilation and installation process.

First retrieve the distribution using anonymous FTP

You have three choices for Linux currently

Retrieve the entire source distribution

Retrieve the entire source plus a precompiled httpd binary

Retrieve only a precompiled binary

Now you have to uncompress and untar the source distributions and uncompress the binary-only package.

FTP a Copy of GNU's GZIP

GZIP will compress or decompress and gzip or ungzip files

Click Here to FTP a Copy of GNU's TAR

GNU's TAR allows you to use compress and gzip in a single command with TAR

First change to your source directory (cd)

To Uncompress and Untar the Source Distributions

zcat httpd_1.5.1-export_linux1.2.13_ELF.tar.Z | tar -xvf -

To Uncompress the Binary-Only Distribution

uncompress httpd_1.5.1-export_linux1.2.13_ELF.Z

After you uncompress and untar the distriubution you must change directories and prepare to compile and/or install the httpd package.

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