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On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jack Oley <jackoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all. Further to my struggles with a shortcut to an .sh file, it has > (slowly) dawned on me that what I actually need to do is to install the app > (Eldy) from the tarball (.gz) what I downloaded. Instructions on the Ubuntu > site are complex and did not work (there is no config file). Can anyone > tell me how I install from this file, please? As ever, many thanks. Jack. I may have missed an earlier thread of context here and be talking about something completely different but it looks like the eldy tar ball is java binaries. I expect the ubuntu instructions you found were relating to building a package from a source tar ball where the usual case is to run ./configure then make etc . In the case of eldy you just need to unpack that tarball somewhere convenient and create a short cut to the main jar file. you may need to make the shortcut involve the java runtime with a command like "java -jar /path/to/wherever/you/installed/it/eldy/eldy.jar" But i would hope any modern distro would already know how to execute a jar file ( assuming you also of cause have the java run time installed). If you don't have java installed you need to "apt-get install sun-java6-jre" or use your favorite package manager. Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq