adding packages to repository from .taz.gz
Downloaded the latest vers of ndiswrapper. It's a .tar.gz. I don't know what to do to install this file. I do something like
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A tar.gz is not a package manager package but rather a gzipped tar bundle.
tar is a utility used to make "archives" (backups) that is commonly used for bundling files for easy transport. gzip is a utility for compressing files. Compressing tar bundles reduces bandwidth when they are transferred over networks. You can run: tar tzvf ndiswrapper-1.42.tar.gz To see what is in the bundle - the "t" tells it to just list and the "z" tells it to gunzip. You can extract what you see in with "t" by changing it to "x": tar xzvf ndiswrapper-1.42.tar.gz However, rather than running the above you might want to use apt-get for ndiswrapper (without the suffix) to see if any of the repositories you have defined a prepackaged bundle for your distro. Typically the .tar.gz distributions are so you can config and compile your own. Look for a "README" file in the tar.gz bundle if you choose to go that way. |
Thank you very much for that thorough explanation. I am obviously new to the world of Linux and am bombarded with new terminology and processes.
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