On Monday 25 October 2010 09:00:04 [email protected] 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? > > A little off-topic, but since three others have answered the question > directly I see no harm in a slight deviation -- the use of apt-get for > software installation/upgrades is deprecated. aptitude has numerous > advantages, including more advanced dependency handling and a > curses-based interactive interface, and is generally considered (by > Debian at least) to have replaced apt-get for everything except > downloading source code. > > Ubuntu 10.10 has, highly frustratingly, removed aptitude from the > installation CD, so if you're on a clean install of Maverick you need > to do apt-get install aptitude before using it.
I avoid the (aptitude) tools (as point 2 will wax lyrical about) but I believe aptitude is depreciated and the apt-tools are the real deal. Will somebody confirm please. There are two approaches here: Magic Recipe: there have been numerous replies Understanding: you *can* ignore the package manager and do the make make install (as root or by sudo) That gives you the app and you can use it or you can make checkinstall but you should explore apt-cache search blazot to see how that works and you probably need apt-get install build-essential apt-get install checkinstall to do the above checkinstall installs your app, and creates a .deb file that allows you to use the package manager and manages that with the package manager allowing you (as posted) to do apt-get remove blazot blazot is just some arbitary name I feel (for me anyway) that short magic recipe answers are not helpful. ie give a man a fish vs teach him to go fishing All of the abouve apt-stuff can be achieved by synaptic, a gui package manager. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
