There
is no single installation technique for all software that's available
for Zeta.
In the BeOS community
there are two major software sites: BeBits
and BeZip. On the download page
for the software, make sure to download the software that is made
for Zeta. In most cases, applications built for BeOS would also
work. If you are using Firefox
or NetPositive,
you're system begins downloading your selection and a Download Manager
window appears. As the download is done, the file can be found in
/boot/home/downloads.
For Zeta there is two commonly used package formats: .pkg and .zip.
If the application comes in a .pkg file, double-clicking it will
start SoftwareValet.
SoftwareValet provides a simple step-by-step installation for Zeta.
Some of the files you download will
be in the .zip format. This is a compressed file format that is
used on all major operating systems. Applications tend to be very
large files, for users to be able to download them fast and easy,
they come in a compressed form.
To install applications that come as archived files, you must unpack
them with Expander
or Squeezer.
Installing Software from Sources
You can compile the software you want to run on Zeta your self from
source. The utility you use is called make, and is run from
the Terminal. make
isn't the compiler, but rather a tool that manages the compilation.
make calls the GNU compiler, to compile the source code.
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