Comments on: How to install Linux / UNIX *.tar.gz tarball files

By: case

case — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:47:52 +0000

Anyone who doesn’t know the diff between lose and loose is a true loser. Anyone who cannot use decent grammar is an even bigger loser. Anyone who cannot even spell his/her own name is beyond loser and way into stupid.

By: Borellianio

Borellianio — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:48:47 +0000

I have been using Linux for the past six years. Of the seven billion people on this earth, how many do you think give a shit?

By: gilbert

gilbert — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:33:18 +0000

Thank you for actually just answering the question (in 6 words). You rock.

By: satish

satish — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:22:37 +0000

I’m new to Linux. How do I install tar.gz2 compressed files under RHEL5?

By: g33k

g33k — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:14:04 +0000

no, i can’t do any of those things, but i don’t go around bitching when i don’t understand somthing.

By: MIke

MIke — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:29:15 +0000

Ok. Uncompress. Great. Easy.

Next instruction “cd path-to-software”

And I know that, how? I uncompress the file, no errors. Nothing in that directory — where did it go? eh?

So what’s the second step, really?

By: Tharindu

Tharindu — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:49:08 +0000

When I try to install “name.tar.gz” file, it appears as follows;

harshitha@ubuntu:~$ tar zxf icta_sinhala_tamil_installer_ubuntu_0.2.tar.gz
tar (child): icta_sinhala_tamil_installer_ubuntu_0.2.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
harshitha@ubuntu:~$

So, I couldn’t install that software. I’m using Ubuntu 10.10 version.
I’m new to Ubuntu.
Please help me…!!
Thank you…

By: janardhan

janardhan — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:11:46 +0000

yum install kernel-devel Kernel-headers
Loaded plugins: aliases, changelog, downloadonly, kabi, presto, protect-packages, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security, tmprepo, verify, versionlock
Config Error: File contains no section headers.
file: file://///etc/yum.repos.d/rhel-beta.repo, line: 1
‘me=Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Server Beta – i386\n’

But i have already installed plugins, what have to do

By: Sameer

Sameer — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:49:26 +0000

How to install driver on linux?

By: the Cat

the Cat — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:35:24 +0000

Siôn, the world needs more people like you, i am novice at linux but ur post cleared up a lot for me. and u do it without talking down to others like most do.

By: Kipling

Kipling — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:22:38 +0000

Just a suggestion:
Step #3 must be step #2 and vice-versa. The content of a tarball may have another installation method than make (i.e. copy the content to a system folder), and in those cases the step #2 is useless. This is usually clearly expressed in the README or INSTALL file.

By: wayne

wayne — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:24:41 +0000

joseph I am sure that you have never installed windows but rather bought a boxed computer already set up for you as windows never JUST works. drivers have to be installed (video sound network) then you have very little software. so it is basically useless. download an iso of say linux mint, zorin, or ubuntu and if you have software to burn it to a dvd. restart your winders boot to dvd and now everything JUST works and if you look in software repo there is software to do anything you wish to do for FREE and it works and you don;t have to clik ten times to agree to it;s terms or are you sure are you really sure? use your winders.

By: Denna

Denna — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:13:54 +0000

You really missed the point. /epicfail

By: nithin

nithin — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:05:14 +0000

i will be thank full if send me the information about instaling .bin and .sh files in linux

i am using fedora in my system. i am not able to install the softwares in it.
please send me the steps,how to install .bin and .sh files .
thank you

By: Fafali

Fafali — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:49:24 +0000

sudo apt-get install gimp

most times it requires a super do command

By: Seth Kaufmann

Seth Kaufmann — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:43:28 +0000

What a dick

By: Seth Kaufmann

Seth Kaufmann — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:42:39 +0000

cars have brakes… Just saying’.

By: carlo

carlo — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:59:10 +0000

If just one of the main linux distributions would compose a simple standard methoid of installing software the rest of the linux distributions would loose traction so fast and then linux would blume

By: Tuerdi

Tuerdi — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:15:38 +0000

Can’t do one thing doesn’t mean “loser”. You are really cocky, I am quite interesting what you are doing for living? If you don’t want to help people just SHUT your mouth and GO away, don’t splash could water to others.

By: Meh

Meh — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 10:32:42 +0000

Synaptic works wonders!