installing a .tar.gz package on Debian

Question

Hello, could you tell me how to install a .tar.gz package? thank you in advance.

pif8384 · Accepted Answer

so in the console you type  cd Desktop (and you press enter)  then you type  tar zxvf your_file_name  and tell me if there are modules in your extracted folder

ibtor · Answer

on Windows ?

7-zip must decompress it (available in the downloads from this site)
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pif8384 · Answer

Hi,  where is your file, do you have it on your desktop or at a URL?

cessoune · Answer

on my desk.

Youplaboum · Answer

"a .tar.gz package."  a package is a .deb, this is probably the source code

pif8384 · Answer

so then you type  cd name_of_your_file and press enter  then you type  cd Modules (make sure there is an uppercase M in Modules)  after that you type  make  then  make install

lami20j · Answer

Hi,

actually, the steps are:

1. downloading the sources (usually a tar.gz archive, but you can also find tbz2) - you've done that
2. locating the directory where you downloaded and moving into that directory with the cd command

cd /path/to/directory

3. decompressing the sources

tar xzf program.tar.gz

if .tbz2

tar xjf program.tbz2

4. look for an INSTALL and/or README file that will tell you the installation steps
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pif8384 · Answer

Hi Franzux,  explain to us the steps to package the sources. We often encounter compressed packages with or without modules. Tell us what is better.

Franzux · Answer

First of all, the first thing to do is to read, as my colleague said, the INSTALL and/or README files.
To create a .deb from source, there are two solutions:
1) Go through alien (meh)
2) Go through checkinstall

Checkinstall* is no more complicated than compiling:

./configure
make
make checkinstall -D makeinstall

There are probably still other ways to do it, that's also Linux...

Best regards,

Franz.

*yet another neologism, it's trendy right now :p
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pif8384 · Answer

thank you

Zempachi · Answer

Note that tar.gz files can also contain the binary, as is the case for Firefox.
In this case, there is no need to compile; just decompress the archive and run the said software.

And then:
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salasovosky · Answer

You create a directory to extract the file tar xvfz nomdufichier.tar.gz -C /rar /rar/rar start

Installing a .tar.gz package on Debian

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