installing tar.gz applications
how do i install applications that are (tar.gz)in linux mint?
in particular apache office 4.01 |
I am not familiar with Linux Mint, Hopefully you can follow the instruction in the INSTALL file which is come with tar file.
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My first course of action would be to check for a (trusted) repository for that particular application, either in the official Mint repositories, or a compatible repository i.e. Ubuntu or Debian. (Be careful about using unofficial repos though!) If the application packages are not anywhere handy, and you're desperate, downloading either the source and building (heaven forbid for something so complex/big), or just a .deb package and installing might be easier.
I am not using Apache Office on Mint or otherwise, so I don't know the particulars...maybe this can help though: http://www.itzgeek.com/how-tos/linux...#axzz2xCWJdVcA or https://forum.openoffice.org/en/foru...ic.php?t=50119 or https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Doc...rg_on_Linux%3F or http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=114498 Like I said, I don't know the particulars of your situation...good luck though... |
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Both Open Office and Libre Office should have packages available in the repos. That would be much easier than installing from the tar archive. I am not a Mint user so cannot tell you how to select those from a repo, but I am sure someone who uses Mint will jump in here with the details. |
I have noticed that tarballs are meant for installing software from source . It takes some time to compile it .
The quicker & easier way is http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=97158 In repository , developers have compiled the software from source into binary suited for your distro & tested it too. Still , if you are interested in doing manually then usually , the sequence to run in terminal is Code:
mkdir tarballs_extracted #let us be systematic Hope , that helps. |
and if not the mint software repo
then there ARE !!! "deb" packages to install for Debian based systems just like there are "rpm" packages for redhat based systems there is no need to build the java source code that is a rather big project and running just "./configure" likely will not be enough OpenOffice is a VERY LARGE project |
this may be relevant -> https://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/setup-linux.html
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