It only takes a minute to sign up. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I would like to know how to install. Could anyone help me understand how to achieve that? These are ready to use binaries. Normally they just need to be extracted to be installed. A binary package is going to be easy:. A source package is going to be more troublesome by far and through they can roughly be processed with the method below, each package is different :.
If there's any problems in the install then you'll have to ask specific questions. You might have problems of incorrect versions of libraries or missing dependencies. There's a reason that Debian packages everything up for you. When you install something on your own you might run into one of these problems!
Usually it boils down to. Generally speaking, when you install tar. So you would do. It us up to you where you want to install your packages. Remember that where ever you decide to do it, you might want to add the path to your PATH shell variable so you can easily run those packages. Let me illustrate this with an example, say you wish to install a package abc.
The dependencies of the package abc may be identified by reading its documentation. You should resolve the dependencies required libraries etc prior to installation for a smooth experience. Before a gcc 4. Then comes the building from source part for which the first step is always extraction. This can be done by using the tar command or by the simple GUI way. Once you have the extracted files in a folder you must browse to that folder using the cd command, for example if the contents are in Downloads then:.
In a nutshell, the Software Manager allows for easier installation of a variety of programs by simply searching for the program available, and then installing it from the manager. For instance, if a user wanted to install GIMP through the Software Manager, it would simply be a matter of locating the program and installing:. Here, I explain how to install two particular types of extensions that often give newbies to Linux quite a headache.
It certainly did for me when I was starting out! Installing deb files comes with varying degrees of difficulty. A very common options is to use. If this happens, the last line of output will be something like configure: error: Library requirements gobbletygook not met, blah blah blah stuff we don't care about But right above that it will list a filename that it cannot find often a filename ending in ".
What you need to do then is to run apt-file search missingfilename. You can then simply install the package using sudo apt-get install requiredpackage Then try running. If you get to a bunch of text that finishes with config. If you got this far, you've done the hardest part already. Now all you need to do is run the command make which does the actual building compiling of the program.
If it's a large program or if you've got a very slow computer, go and get a cup of coffee or something. When its done, install the program. You probably want to use sudo checkinstall which puts the program in the package manager for clean, easy removal later. This replaces the old sudo make install command. See the complete documentation at CheckInstall. It shouldn't take long. When finished, if you used checkinstall, the program will appear in Synaptic Package Manager.
If this all seems way too hard for you, don't fret. You're using Ubuntu after all, and it has all of the programs that you actually need to get your work done already packaged for you. If there isn't a package out there, the odds are that you really don't need the program and within a few months someone will have packaged it for you.
The only programs you actually need to build and compile like this are programs that are new and perhaps not yet stable or ready for your desktop. If you think this procedure is too hard, well maybe you ought to reconsider why you want to do this and just wait a few months for the next stable release.
But it can be a good learning experience for you. If your desired package is quite important and you think it deserves to be in Ubuntu properly, perhaps contact the Masters of the Universe and see if they can do the hard work for you — if they package something, anyone can install it without having to go through this procedure. But if you can get through all this, you're well on your way to becoming an expert Linux user — you'd be surprised how easy all this seems after you've done it just a few times.
Good luck!
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