Re: [LUG] Installing

Rob, Dan, Martijn and Grant,
Thanks for the useful information. Navigating to the Dowloads folder (d'oh) and then using the command, tar zxpvf eldy23.tar.gz, it looked like the file was extracted but I cannot see it anywhere in the applications list or the system preferences. The programme is Eldy, a user interface designed for old folk (and what a charming name it has). It's not in the Ub software centre, the Synaptic Pkg Mgr and it's not an option when I log in. Bit of a strange one...

I did see in the Downloads file, these:

checkConnessioneImg credits_it.txt eldy_checkconnessione_en.html eldy_checkconnessione.html     eldy.jar jpg_examples lib             license_it.txt       note_eldy2.3_it.txt privacy_it.txt
credits_en.txt       eldy23          eldy_checkconnessione_fr.html eldy_checkconnessione_nl.html eldy.sh   lang          license_en.txt note_eldy2.3_en.txt privacy_en.txt       sound

... so I looked at (cat) eldy.sh and saw this:

checkConnessioneImg credits_it.txt eldy_checkconnessione_en.html eldy_checkconnessione.html     eldy.jar jpg_examples lib             license_it.txt       note_eldy2.3_it.txt privacy_it.txt
credits_en.txt       eldy23          eldy_checkconnessione_fr.html eldy_checkconnessione_nl.html eldy.sh   lang          license_en.txt note_eldy2.3_en.txt privacy_en.txt       sound

Am I getting closer..?!

   Jack.

> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:33:40 +0100
> From: rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Installing
>
> On 19/07/11 21:02, Jack Oley wrote:
> > Can anybody tell me how I install a tar.gz package, please? I've got it
> > in my Dowloads folder; I open the terminal and enter the command, *tar
> > xfvz eldy23.tar.gz * and get the error, "Cannot open: No such file or
> > directory". Am I doing something incorrectly? Is there an easier /
> > better way to install a tar.gz file?? Thanks for any help. Jack.
> >
>
> I'm assuming when you open a terminal you'll end up in your home directory.
>
> You'll need to first change to the Downloads directory before you can
> untar the file, or specifically give it the path of the file.
>
> You can do this in a couple of ways...
>
> at the $ prompt type:
>
> cd Downloads
>
> tar xfvz eldy23.tar.gz
>
> ....or....
>
> tar xfvz Downloads/eldy23.tar.gz
>
> The first set of commands will change to the Downloads directory and
> then extract the archive, possibly in to it's own sub-directory.
>
> The second set of commands will extract the tar file into the root of
> your home directory, again it may create a sub-directory.
>
> You may also find that you can extract the file using some sort of
> archive manager. You didn't specify which desktop environment you're
> using but on Mint (and at least earlier versions of Ubuntu running
> Gnome) you can double click on the tar.gz file in Nautilius (the file
> manager) and extract the files to a location of your choice.
>
> What I tend to do personally is try and find what I'm looking for in the
> repositories (either with Synaptic, apt-get, yum, or YaST depending on
> the distro), failing that I try and add a 3rd party repository so I can
> use a package manager, or if there isn't one, then I try and get a
> suitable package (.deb, .rpm etc). If all these methods fail then I'll
> look at getting a .tar.gz (either a binary or source code to compile) or
> maybe look at getting the source from a subversion, cvs, git server
> (something that I'm not too clued up on so try and avoid it if I can :-D).
>
> Anyway, good luck, hopefully you'll get it sorted out.
>
> Rob
>
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