When finished, if you used checkinstall, the program will appear in Synaptic Package Manager. If this all seems way too hard for you, don't fret. You're using Ubuntu after all, and it has all of the programs that you actually need to get your work done already packaged for you.
If there isn't a package out there, the odds are that you really don't need the program and within a few months someone will have packaged it for you. The only programs you actually need to build and compile like this are programs that are new and perhaps not yet stable or ready for your desktop. If you think this procedure is too hard, well maybe you ought to reconsider why you want to do this and just wait a few months for the next stable release. But it can be a good learning experience for you.
If your desired package is quite important and you think it deserves to be in Ubuntu properly, perhaps contact the Masters of the Universe and see if they can do the hard work for you — if they package something, anyone can install it without having to go through this procedure.
But if you can get through all this, you're well on your way to becoming an expert Linux user — you'd be surprised how easy all this seems after you've done it just a few times. Good luck! Easy meaning "easier than tearing your hair out and then screaming about how much Linux sucks while running around the room".
Not actually easy. I got this off the Ubuntu website and pretty much summarized it like my last instructable i plan on doing more of these if they turn out ok : here is the website i got it off. How would I go about compiling a source tarball that doesn't have a configure or a Makefile because there are some packages that newer than what my distribution's repos have that don't have a configure script or a Makefile. Introduction: Installing Tar.
By Thundermoon99 Follow. More by the author:. Improve this answer. Gung Foo Gung Foo 13k 5 5 gold badges 30 30 silver badges 39 39 bronze badges. I apologize for my newbiness. I've read the documentation for it. My problem is in the details: do i type the python setup. Also, what is the prefix. Add a comment. Keith Keith Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Another option is to install 7-Zip, which has a nice graphical user interface.
Instead of using 7-Zip on the command line, you can use the file manager and click on a. But now we have a couple layers to deal with. Here are the steps I came up with:. Lastly, we wrap the whole thing into a powershell script, and change it to accept parameters for the url and output, and save it as DownloadAndExtract. And for our Action, we Start a Program with powershell as the script, and the location of our ps1 script in the arguments:.
AlwaysLearning How can you post a comment here without an Internet connection? Try the linked "How can I install software offline" link. Sometimes there is actually no need for an installation.
Then move the extracted contents of tar. Add a comment. How you compile a program from a source Open a console Use the command cd to navigate to the correct folder.
Extract the files with one of the commands If it's tar. Alvar Alvar Well, more generic instructions would be "download the file, unpack and look for install instructions either inside or on the website". I've never got any instructions for installing from a source, I only get a folder with some install.
What sources do you download? Also, make install won't work if the prefix is set to a privileged location which is the default. Therefore, use sudo make install or install it into a directory in the home directory using.
Notice that the part about k3b is because this answer was merged from another question which, I presume, was about installing k3b from source. So if you're not trying to install k3b, don't follow that! After you've downloaded your file, assuming that you saved it to Downloads , type the following: cd Downloads sudo cp dropbox-lnx.
Don't forget the extension. Now, here's where you create the icon. Here's good template; edit it appropriately. That could be very bad if you didn't. Now, click "Save", close it out, and you're in business!
David Foerster I think this isn't a good answer, because you don't differentiate between software that you have as binary and software in source code. Think you are getting the down votes because you are not explaining what to do with most source code packed file you download.
This does not explain how to pick up a source package, build it and install it as it is. What does "Okay, it's now marked as executable, so it's time to create a symbolic link this is what allows you to run it from the Terminal " mean? So does cp dropbox-lnx. First things first It is generally not advised to download and install applications from the internet files. That said, how to install tar packages The best way is to download the tar.
Seth Little Jawa Little Jawa 2, 2 2 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. For example, you can install mysql by installing mysql-server package. You can extract this file with Short explanation on the options: -x : extract -v : verbose: show what is being extracted -j : type of compression, in this case bzip2 -f : 'next comes the filename' This is probably not enough though. Warning: Installing software like this will NOT install any dependencies and will complain if you try to install a tarball before you installed these dependencies.
Rinzwind Rinzwind k 38 38 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I ran tar -xvjf and then. Also, I did that and got another error, please see my second edit in the original post.
Could you rephrase that? Oh, I see now. Judging by the tutorial you linked to in your post, I'm presuming there's a lot more I need to do, though. This is all way over my head so I guess I'll just wait for a. Thanks for your help, though! From the official website of Linux Mint Installing from archives. Steps: open the archives with archive manager by double clicking it, then extract it. If you find a file named configure then.
If you find a file named install. If you find a file named make if there is no configure file then code: make sudo make install e.
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