[xubuntu-users] How to Install a tar.gz?

[Vincent]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Robin <dixiedancer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I am soooo loving my Xubuntu. What a delight it has been so far! I've
> even written a couple of rants about Xubuntu in my blog
> (http://robinzrants.wordpress.com).
>
> I've downloaded a tar.gz from the web (because this particular
> application is not available in our repos yet), but I don't know how to
> install it. Is there a simple little tutorial for installing software
> from a tar.gz in Xubuntu?
>
> Thanks,
> Robin
>
>
What particular application is it? There might very well be alternate,
better ways of obtaining an installer for Xubuntu as you normally don't want
to install from source (or at least if you don't really know how to do it).
Instructions are usually in a file named INSTALL in the .tar.gz (which you
can extract by double-clicking on it to obtain the source). But again, first
tell us which application it is because you most likely don't want to do
this.

Best,
-- 
Vincent
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