Installing a .tar.gz file
I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and had hoped to use Synaptic to find and install Truecrypt. As Synaptic couldn't find it I downloaded it from http://truecrypt.org. In case it helps the file is called "truecrypt-6.3a-linux-x86.tar.gz".
Apart from not knowing how to get a working program from the .tar.gz file, I don't know whether the installation process sorts out where the file should go and puts it there, or whether I have to create a directory for it and put it there myself. Could someone help me, please? |
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gunzip truecrypt-6.3a-linux-x86.tar.gz
tar xvf truecrypt-6.3a-linux-x86.tar cd truecrypt-6.3a-linux-x86 ./configure make make install |
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The package normally contains an Ubuntu installer as referenced to in the link I posted. This way of installing should be way easier for the OP. Kind regards, Eric |
As a general piece of advice, .tar.gz files are, in reverse order, 'gzipped' and 'tared'.
That is, the author has taken several files and used the utility tar to make one big file out of them, and then used gzip to compress that file. To reverse this process, you would start by unzipping and then untar. However:
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Thank you all for your replies. I read the posts that you mentioned, EricTRA but decided to try linuxunix's method; but I only got as far as:
cd truecrypt-6.3a-linux-x86 and then I got an error message saying "No such file or directory" However, I have found a file truecrypt-6.3a-setup-x86 in my home folder and am not sure what to do next. As far as I can tell salasi, there isn't a 'readme' file with this package; it might have been helpful if there had been. |
Here there is a tutorial for an earlier version of Ubuntu.
With regard to what you have already, it looks as if that is a combined install script, set of licenses and binary program and that you have successfully extracted it from the .tar.gz file. My guess is that if you execute it, it will go into an installer, but I could be horribly mistaken... |
Hello,
I just downloaded the file truecrypt-6.3a-linux-x86.tar.gz from the http://truecrypt.org. Running the following command in a terminal got the program installed without any errors. Commands are to be executed in the directory where you downloaded the file of course. Code:
tar xvzf truecrypt-6.3a-linux-x86.tar.gz I assume it needs an X environment because I installed it on a test server which runs Debian but when trying to run Code:
truecrypt -h Kind regards, Eric |
Hello Eric,
Thanks for your help and for going to the trouble of installing it on your own system. I followed your code and it installed itself with no further ado. Thanks again Regards, Chris |
Hi Chris,
No trouble at all, I'm glad it worked out. Have fun with Linux. If you consider your question/problem solved, then please mark this thread as such using the Thread Tools. Kind regards, Eric |
The problem is now solved but I don't know about how to use Thread Tools
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Look above the first post.
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