Installing a .tar.gz package on Debian

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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"a .tar.gz package."

a package is a .deb, this is probably the source code

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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Hi,

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

on my desk.

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

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.

thank you

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:
http://www.commentcamarche.net/faq/sujet1328 linux install programs package management compile

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

on Windows ?

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