can't install a .tgz.tar (noob)

dave bean · 02-17-2004, 05:13 PM

hi
I just downloaded the jext text editor (I chose the .tgz for slackware):

http://www.jext.org/?section=downloads

In windows its extension is just .tgz but in linux the extension .tgz.tar. So im figuring its a tarred slackpack. . .

so first i try tar -zxvf and i get 3 new directories (install,opt,usr) in install there is a shell file 'doinst' so i type 'checkmod a + x' and type 'make install' and i get the 'no rule to make target' error (what does this mean please??).

well probabyl i shouldn't have typed -zxvf but when i try tar -x the shell just hangs.

(i also tried renaming the pack to just .tgz, there was no error but it wasn't renamed)

im confused - can anyone help please ?

XavierP · 02-17-2004, 05:18 PM

Did you try ./configure, then make then use su to become root and then type make install?

This thread may be of help: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45094

dave bean · 02-17-2004, 05:26 PM

yup i cd to the install directory, there is only the doinst.sh file and a text file there. then i type
./configure
which results in a program not found or similar type error. I tried make and make install as root too.

XavierP · 02-17-2004, 05:31 PM

The INSTALL file is, I assume, the text file you are talking about. Open it in a text editor, it should tell you what you need to do.

dave bean · 02-17-2004, 06:30 PM

the other file is a text file with a 'handy rule' for editing package names. I opened doinst.sh in gedit and it contains the following:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
ln -sf /opt/jext/bin/jext.sh /usr/bin/jext
chmod ugo+x /usr/bin/jext

the packages ive installed before have always gone ok . .

Tinkster · 02-17-2004, 06:58 PM

just do
installpkg <path/filename>

It seems to be an actual slack-pack, nothing
else needs to be done.

Cheers,
Tink

dave bean · 02-17-2004, 07:02 PM

hi tinkster. When i try this i get 'can't install package, it doesn't end in .tgz' .

But i have redownloaded the file and noticed that each download i either get a tgz.tar or a tgz.gz extension. I think windows is adding extensions as i have this problem before. However when i rename the package .tgz i still get the error i mentioned before.

Minderbinder · 02-17-2004, 07:04 PM

Did you download the package while you were in windows? It sounds like windows couldn't deal with the .tgz extension and added the .tar. When I downloaded the file in linux it is just a .tgz file. Try downloading it in linux or turning off the "hide extension for known file type" option in windows then removing the .tar in windows.

init · 02-17-2004, 07:16 PM

First off Jext is a java based app. You need the Java sdk installed.

1 Can you : " echo $JAVA_HOME "
if not you need to set this up in your profile. If this is all said and done and when you "echo $JAVA_HOME" you get /path/to/you/java/install you must untar the file

2 tar xfvz jext-3.2pre3.tar.gz <<<DOWNLOAD THIS FILE FROM THE WEB_LINK YOU POSTED ABOVE>>>

3 than cd to <jextinstalldir> than cd to the bin dir withen that

4 type ./jext

dave bean · 02-17-2004, 07:26 PM

thanks people i sorted it now

i was downloading it in windows (need to get my wireless card working with slack and i dont know enough yet to do this). The extension was always .tgz but the file was listed as either tar or gz. Then when i accessed it in linux the .tar or .gz extension was added to .tgz.

i just downloaded the package again and renamed it (in linux) to .tgz and it installed fine - cant understand why it wouldn't do that before when i renamed it

cheers