Re: Installing packages you got from elsewhere
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:35 am
it should be a deb - file which is tared and compressed. the ending should look somehow like:
tgz ; tbz ...
First you need to unpack it. you may do that from the archiver or ( i think) from the file-manager too.
or from the command-line, terminal-emulator, similar to the following:
gzip -d ***.tgz
tar -xvvf ***.tar
(-d -> decompress, -xvvf extract very verbose to file)
you may try tar -xzf or tar -xjf, i usually do it in two different steps (1)decompress 2 )untar)
once that is done (somehow)
if you get any error-messages install the packages which are said to be missing in the usual manner.
might be it will work, might be it wont good luck
tgz ; tbz ...
First you need to unpack it. you may do that from the archiver or ( i think) from the file-manager too.
or from the command-line, terminal-emulator, similar to the following:
gzip -d ***.tgz
tar -xvvf ***.tar
(-d -> decompress, -xvvf extract very verbose to file)
you may try tar -xzf or tar -xjf, i usually do it in two different steps (1)decompress 2 )untar)
once that is done (somehow)
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sudo dpkg -i package_name.deb
might be it will work, might be it wont good luck