How to install a tarball?
 

I'd love to know how to install a tar.gz file in Ubuntu. I just reinstalled Ubuntu from scratch, so I don't have any additional software.

Thanks for any help :hattip:

Greetingz!

Well, that depends on what's in the tarball, but the following should help you out a bit.
Open a terminal, go to the directory that contains your *.tar.gz file, and do the following;
Once you get that done, go into the directory it creates and do an "ls -l", you might see a file called "configure".
If you see anything like "INSTALL", "README", or "doc", get in there and start reading.

It'd help if you gave us the name or source URL where you obtained the tarball, too.

PLEASE, since you are using UBUNTU it is better to install a .deb package rather than
a tar file (through Synaptic Package Manager) or http://packages.ubuntu.com/

@Anisha Kaul
True, but OP didn't say what they were installing. It may be that the software in question doesn't have a .deb file.
Heck, I'm thinking it could be a sourcecode tarball of some sort...

Actually I focused on:
and secondly I didn't mean to tell OP not to follow your advice, I just meant to point
out that there is one more way :D

Very true, there's many way's to install software. :D
And I would strongly advise anyone installing pre-compiled software to grab somethine created with their *NIX distribution's native package-management system in mind.

It's a shame OP didn't include more details...as they're offline at the moment, it will probably be a day till we hear back from them. :(