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Installing tarballs
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Installing tarballs
Can somebody explain, in excruciating detail, ho to install tarballs?
I'm trying to get Macromedia Flash and a few other things.
Thanks!
I'm trying to get Macromedia Flash and a few other things.
Thanks!
"Resistance against tyranny is obedience to God"
-Harriet Tubman
That's why I'm using Debian.
-Harriet Tubman
That's why I'm using Debian.
Good question. I have nothing but trouble with them, unless they are totally inclusive. Otherwise, they are dependency hell.Andruk Tatum wrote:Can somebody explain, in excruciating detail, ho to install tarballs?
I would amend your question to: Can somebody explain, in excruciating detail, how to install tarballs to Debian?
BTW, have you tried to apt-get these:
flashplayer-mozilla
flashplugin-nonfree
From source
1.tar zxvf SOMETHING.tar.gz
2. cd SOMETHING/
3. ./configure
4. make
6. make install
From deb:
From files with extension .run
Good luck!
1.tar zxvf SOMETHING.tar.gz
2. cd SOMETHING/
3. ./configure
4. make
6. make install
From deb:
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dpkg -i SOMETHING.deb
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sh something.run
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Hmph.
Well, it wasn't working for me earlier. But seeing as how it's 3:59am in my time zone right now, and I have a Calc. test later today, it was probably me.
Your post did clear up a few things, though, thanks.
Such as:
do we have to type in the entire filename when doing ./configure ?
Now I know that the answer is no, you just have to change the directory to it.
THANK YOU!
Your post did clear up a few things, though, thanks.
Such as:
do we have to type in the entire filename when doing ./configure ?
Now I know that the answer is no, you just have to change the directory to it.
THANK YOU!
"Resistance against tyranny is obedience to God"
-Harriet Tubman
That's why I'm using Debian.
-Harriet Tubman
That's why I'm using Debian.
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./configure
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make
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make install
Each source package have own's option. As an example is mplayer. For default ( text ) installation the command is
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./configure
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./configure --enable-gui
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Step 2...
So, when you ust do the tar SOMETHING.tar.gz, you have to include the file path. I know that now.
So, where does it extract to, because the tarball was on my desktop, it seems logical that it extracted there, but I don't see the folder, and doing it through the command prompt doesn't see it either. That's where I was getting hung up before, I just didn't think that it was working at all.
So, where does it extract to by default? Do I have to specify this?
-Thanks, this has helped!
So, where does it extract to, because the tarball was on my desktop, it seems logical that it extracted there, but I don't see the folder, and doing it through the command prompt doesn't see it either. That's where I was getting hung up before, I just didn't think that it was working at all.
So, where does it extract to by default? Do I have to specify this?
-Thanks, this has helped!
"Resistance against tyranny is obedience to God"
-Harriet Tubman
That's why I'm using Debian.
-Harriet Tubman
That's why I'm using Debian.
Or better yet, create a deb file from mplayer!
apt-get install fakeroot debhelper liblogfile-rotate-perl libconfhelper-perl
tar jxf essential.tar.bz2
mv essential-codecs/ /usr/lib/win32
tar jxf MPlayer.version.tar.bz2
cd MPlayer.version/
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--disable-runtime-cpudetection --disable-rtc" fakeroot debian/rules binary
et voila
or if you think as I do that's a bit long to type every time, I added it as an alias to root's ~/.bashrc
apt-get install fakeroot debhelper liblogfile-rotate-perl libconfhelper-perl
tar jxf essential.tar.bz2
mv essential-codecs/ /usr/lib/win32
tar jxf MPlayer.version.tar.bz2
cd MPlayer.version/
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--disable-runtime-cpudetection --disable-rtc" fakeroot debian/rules binary
et voila
or if you think as I do that's a bit long to type every time, I added it as an alias to root's ~/.bashrc
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alias debmplaycc='DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="--disable-runtime-cpudetection --disable-rtc" fakeroot debian/rules binary'
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines...
the contents of the tar file will be in the directory where you performed the tar command
example, your friend sent you blahblah.tar.bz2 in xchat, it ended up in the default xchat download dir, and it's a game, and you want to unpack it into /usr/local/games/
first cd /usr/local/games
now, you're unsure if your friend has packed down the game with its own dirname, and you do NOT want a big mess of files right in your games root dir, so if you're lazy mkdir a new dir and unpack it there just to be safe, tehn you can always move it on down if indeed there was a subdir name, and if there wasn't, well then you just rename your temp dir to the proper name, you lucky dog!
or you can run tar tvf on the tar file to see its contents (note that if it's packed with gzip you need to add a z switch, and if it's packed with bzip2 you need to add a j switch, tar jtvf, tar ztvf, regardless of if you're unpacking it (x) or viewing its contents (t), you don't really need "v" in there, but "f" is required
tar jtvf /home/yourluser/.xchat2/downloads/blahblah.tar.bz2
ok time to unpack it for real then
but remember, type pwd, to find out where you are
/usr/local/games/ ah indeed, that's where you're supposed to be, ok, ready to unpack
tar jxvf /home/yourluser/.xchat2/downloads/blahblah.tar.bz2
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
example, your friend sent you blahblah.tar.bz2 in xchat, it ended up in the default xchat download dir, and it's a game, and you want to unpack it into /usr/local/games/
first cd /usr/local/games
now, you're unsure if your friend has packed down the game with its own dirname, and you do NOT want a big mess of files right in your games root dir, so if you're lazy mkdir a new dir and unpack it there just to be safe, tehn you can always move it on down if indeed there was a subdir name, and if there wasn't, well then you just rename your temp dir to the proper name, you lucky dog!
or you can run tar tvf on the tar file to see its contents (note that if it's packed with gzip you need to add a z switch, and if it's packed with bzip2 you need to add a j switch, tar jtvf, tar ztvf, regardless of if you're unpacking it (x) or viewing its contents (t), you don't really need "v" in there, but "f" is required
tar jtvf /home/yourluser/.xchat2/downloads/blahblah.tar.bz2
ok time to unpack it for real then
but remember, type pwd, to find out where you are
/usr/local/games/ ah indeed, that's where you're supposed to be, ok, ready to unpack
tar jxvf /home/yourluser/.xchat2/downloads/blahblah.tar.bz2
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines...