How to uncompress and install tar.gz/tar.bz2/rar packages in Ubuntu. Published in. After uncompress a tar package,commonly you can read the “readme” file in folder for how to install.Following. Sudo apt-get install build-essential then you.
Unarchiving and Decompressing.tar.xz Files On Unix-like Systems Command-line utilities are available on modern Linux systems, and other Unix-like systems, for unpacking.tar.xz archives. Modern version of tar can detect the type of compression used on an archive, so simply entering tar -xf archive.tar.xz will unpack the archive.
For the more GUI-inclinded, modern Linux distributions include graphical tools for unarchiving.tar.xz archives like the Archive Manager. On Mac OS X On Mac OS, the Unix command-line tools are available and can be installed with package management systems like. The popular tool, uncompressed and unarchives.tar.xz files. It is also available on the Mac App Store.
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On Windows The popular open source Windows tool called can unpack.tar.xz files.
This tutorial shows how to uncompress and install tar packages in ubuntu. Uncompress: First,open up terminal(Applications/Accessories/Terminal). For tar.gz packages: sudo tar zxvf file.tar.gz For tar.bz2 packages: sudo tar jxvf file.tar.bz2 For rar packages sudo rar a file.rar For tar.Z packages sudo uncompress file.tar.Z If uncompress packages in user folder(/home/user),omit “sudo” in previous commands. Install After uncompress a tar package,commonly you can read the “readme” file in folder for how to install.Following are often used: option 1: sudo./configure make make install option 2: sudo./configure -prefix=/path make make install option 3: sudo./configure -enable-static-link -prefix=$XXX/static -with-curses && make && make install. It will work for one linux user on HIS computer; but nothing on linux is standardized, it might work for a few programs but not all the time.
Linux users will eternaly trying to justify why it is a simple and open OS everyone should use; but it’s relatively more closed than you think. It’s closed due to the way it works, only users like OP who knows CLI can enjoy doing whatever they want with linux, i agree, but it’s just screaming “mine’s bigger than yours”. On windows you just extract to “program files” and double click on a.exe to run the program or install it, yet only a few linux users can understand why it is a good system. That is not how freedom works guys, we are here to USE a computer; not learn it.
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