On rpm based linux systems (such as RedHat, SUSE, Mandrake, etc), you can build and install the rpm binaries directly from the tarball:
$ su - root # rpmbuild -tb avrdude-4.4.0.tar.gz # rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/avrdude-4.4.0-1.i386.rpm
Note that the path to the resulting rpm package, differs from system to system. The above example is specific to RedHat.
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