hello login as you or at least get to your home directory ;
cd tar -tzvf get_iplayer-2.95.tar.gz tar -xzvf get_iplayer-2.95.tar.gz you should now have in your home directory a directory named: get_iplayer-2.95 cd ./get_iplayer-2.95 ls -ls to discover where any other stray "get_iplayer/get-iplayer" may be do sudo find / \( -iname "*get_iplayer*" -o -iname "*get-iplayer*" \) -ls | tee find-stray-GiP depending on your system, number of hard drives, number of mounted filesystems, size of mounted filesystems this may take a long time. On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Alan Milewczyk <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/07/16 23:36, Roger Bell_West wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:31:09PM +0100, Alan Milewczyk wrote: >>> >>> On 04/07/16 19:15, Roger Bell_West wrote: >>>> >>>> You asked the system to uninstall the package, but not to purge its >>>> configuration files. >>> >>> Oh, so what is the command to do that, please? >> >> apt-get purge, or aptitude purge. >> >> > Ok thanks, done that and it seems to have uninstalled the application and > purged the config files (although v2.83 still seems to live somewhere in the > system as "get-iplayer" when I do a "sudo apt-get install get-iplayer", > heaven only knows where). > > However, ignoring that, I'm now trying, without success to install from the > tar.gz file and from the extracted tar.gz ( sudo apt-get install from the > relevant folder....), I'm getting a "cannot find package" error message (I > presume it needs a deb file to work). I've looked up on the net how to > install from a tar.gz and tried a few differing options without success - > indeed there is comment on a number of websites that this is not for > beginners and what seems to work for one program doesn't work for another. I > must admit as a Linux noob this is like pulling teeth! :-( > > So, after going round in circles, please can someone tell what is the > definitive way of installing this tar.gz? > > Thanks > > A > > > _______________________________________________ > get_iplayer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer -- terry l. ridder ><> _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
