What did I do wrong? gregoryop...@cowboy-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install checkinstall [sudo] password for gregoryopera: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic linux-headers-2.6.24-19 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: checkinstall 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 116kB of archives. After this operation, 561kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe checkinstall 1.6.1-5ubuntu1 [116kB] Fetched 116kB in 18s (6164B/ s) Selecting previously deselected package checkinstall. (Reading database ... 109832 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking checkinstall (from .../ checkinstall_1.6.1-5ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Setting up checkinstall (1.6.1-5ubuntu1) ... gregoryop...@cowboy-pc:~$ flock-2.0.3.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2/ configure --..... bash: flock-2.0.3.en-US.linux-i686.tar.bz2/configure: No such file or directory gregoryop...@cowboy-pc:~$
On Dec 24, 5:17 pm, elliott-brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd add the following to that. In a terminal, write: > > sudo apt-get install checkinstall > > Then, as Zhang has written: > > ./configure --..... > make > > you final command (if all goes well) is: > > sudo checkinstall <name/of/package> > > eg. sudo checkinstall > > This will create a .deb package for the application, list it clearly in > Synaptic and allow the package to be easily uninstalled either with Synaptic > or with: > > sudo dpkg -r <name/of/package> > > eg. sudo dpkg -r flock > > Another way of unpacking a compressed file (like tar and tar.gz etc) is to > right click on the file and select the 'uncompress' or 'extract' (I'm not > home and call recall exactly) option. > > Then open the file created and execute the ./configure (etc) command as > described by zhang. > > Finally, are you sure there are no .deb file for the applications and they > are not in the repos? > > Finally, finally. There is another program called Alien. This is in the > repos. Either use Synaptic or sudo apt-get install alien. > > This will convert RPM files to .deb files. It can be handy. > > After install you merely use (from the command line again) > > sudo alien <name/of/package> > > It will then create a .deb which more often (than not :)) will install > easily. > > HTH > > Regards, > > 4ebees > > On 24/12/2008, zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > tar zxvf file.tar.gz ./configure --..... > > make > > make install > > > that's just i can say > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:17 PM, CybaCowboy > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> Does anyone have step-by-step instructions for installing ".tar.gz" > >> and ".tar.bz2" files? > > >> I'm trying to install the Open Source programs Flock and Songbird, but > >> I have no idea how to install these programs! > > >>http://www.flock.com > >>http://www.getsongbird.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
