On 28 August 2011 18:13, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 28 August 2011 17:46, John Levin <technola...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> hi all, >> >> I've installed zotero standalone 3.0beta1 on Ubuntu, from a tar.gz >> package. >> (http://www.zotero.org/**support/3.0<http://www.zotero.org/support/3.0>) >> Everything works, and I've added a menu entry. But as it stands, it's >> installed localy, for me only, and not for all users on the system. This >> doesn't really bother me, in that I'm the only user of this laptop, bt out >> of interest, is there any way of installing tar.gz packages system wide? >> >> (I'm on ubuntu 10.10, btw) >> >> > A tar.gz is an archive rather than a package. Traditionally you could > uncompress the package in /usr/local or /opt as root, which would make it > available to all users. > > > Of course, I might have confused things here... I mean a tarball rather than a package and Alan is right, check if the tarball has an installer in it. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "Is this your sanderling?"
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