How to install apps in Linux?

DeSmOnD dAvId · 15-08-2006, 04:46 PM

Can anyone please give me detailed info on how to install apps in Linux? Please give some detailed info, including installer types.

I dont know if this is in the right section, Mods, please move if not in correct section.

JGuru · 17-08-2006, 04:32 PM

@Desmond, you should have posted this under 'Open source'!!
If you download a Linux package in <package>.tar.gz2. Uncompress the package.
Again use 'tar' command to uncompress the package again. Now you will get a
directory created in the same directory where you uncompressed it.
There will be a README file. Read it for further instructions. Now login as root.
$ su -
(Enter password)
$ ./<executable-file>

This will install the application.

sensationalboy · 17-08-2006, 09:52 PM

this is a very big list

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...re-readme.html

DeSmOnD dAvId · 19-08-2006, 11:58 AM

@JGuru, thanks for that I really needed this info, since the package was a ".tar.gz" type.

@sensationalboy, that URL is great, may come handy someday.

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JGuru Wise Old Owl Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Space-time continuum Posts: 1,646	Re: How to install apps in Linux? @Desmond, you should have posted this under 'Open source'!! If you download a Linux package in <package>.tar.gz2. Uncompress the package. Again use 'tar' command to uncompress the package again. Now you will get a directory created in the same directory where you uncompressed it. There will be a README file. Read it for further instructions. Now login as root. $ su - (Enter password) $ ./<executable-file> This will install the application.

17-08-2006, 09:52 PM	#3 (permalink)
sensationalboy Apprentice Join Date: May 2005 Location: reaching hell Posts: 89	Re: How to install apps in Linux? this is a very big list http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...re-readme.html __________________ To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

19-08-2006, 11:58 AM	#4 (permalink)
DeSmOnD dAvId Alpha Geek Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sanitarium Posts: 596	Re: How to install apps in Linux? @JGuru, thanks for that I really needed this info, since the package was a ".tar.gz" type. @sensationalboy, that URL is great, may come handy someday. __________________ "If God had wanted you to live he would not have created ME!" Steam : Rrtry™ DeathMetal My Blog : The Pandemonium (Latest Post : Where does music come from?) Need new Electric guitar...help needed!!!

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