On Sunday 24 October 2010 13:45:29 wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: > If I have an application that I wish to install --- a crossword > compiler in this case and I have the download on the desktop --- > it's a .tgz file --- is there an apt-get command 9or variation) > that will install it?
apt-get install alien Then... man alien ... or Google search. Followed by.... alien -d crossword.tgz .... or alien -d -i crossword.tgz Or, if you did -d first and didn't install (more sensible)... dpkg -i crossword_all.deb Doing -d and -i together can lead to some issues sometimes. Should work fine on Debian and Ubuntu. If it doesn't work untar the tgz and tar again at crossword.tar.gz. That should do it :) This might or might not work for a compiler but it's worked for me a lot of times. Sometimes it didn't. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
