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I am trying to install tar.bz file, and have tired various methods from other sites, none of which work.

A bit more detail on your distro and on why you are resorting to installing a tar.gz file would be helpful.
Have you looked for a .deb install file?
Do you have Mint installed?

Whether you're using Ubuntu or Mint you have a package manager to deal with managing (installing, removing, updating, etc.) packages. If you're installing something that is not a package then you'd do well to give us some details about what it is.
jdk

Thanks for the reply. The application is Photonic, an Image manager which I thought might be worth trying. I have Mint Cinnamon 17.1 installed on an HP laptop. The only file I could find for this app was this tar ile - phototonic-1.5.tar.gz. Now I notice that it is a gz, not bz file, but still don't know exactly how to install it. Any help would be appreciated.

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Originally Posted by alpizzuto (Post 5280921)

Assuming you downloaded it from their website, did you look at the installation instructions, on their main page???
http://oferkv.github.io/phototonic/

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Originally Posted by Installation Instructions

Installation

Code:

General instructions:$ tar -zxvf phototonic.tar.gz

$ cd phototonic

$ qmake PREFIX="/usr"

$ make

$ sudo make install

Example for Ubuntu:

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

$ sudo apt-get install qt5-default libexiv2-dev

$ tar -zxvf phototonic.tar.gz

$ cd phototonic

$ qmake qt=qt5

$ make

$ sudo make install

The Ubuntu instructions may be a good thing to follow since you're using Mint, if the general instructions don't work.

I notice that Debian has a phototonic package.

Quote:

~$ aptitude search phototonic
p phototonic - image viewer and organizer
p phototonic:i386 - image viewer and organizer

If that package is available for Mint (I assume it is) then just install it like you would any other package. No need to download a tarball from their website.
jdk

Yes, I tried the instructions for Ubuntu and get the following after the qmake command:

Failure to open file: /home/alan/Downloads/phototonic-1.5/Makefile
Unable to generate makefile for: /home/alan/Downloads/phototonic-1.5/phototonic.pro

To jdkaye: Tried that and get this

alan@alan-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC ~ $ ~$aptitude search phototonic
~: command not found
alan@alan-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC ~ $ ~$ aptitude search phototonic
~$: command not found
alan@alan-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC ~ $

Gentlemen - to all who have been so helpful on this topic:

I have solved my problem by adding a new ppa that I found (don't remember where any more) and installing phototonic thru the Software Manager. Hope is has been worth all this effort. I did learn quite a bit during this, so thank you for that.

al

Quote:

You have to install the aptitude package in order to use that command.
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jdk