Way to install Software onto Ubuntu from USB?
Hey All,
I am wondering if there is a way to install software onto Ubuntu Gnome Desktop via USB. Anotherwords, I have a program that I want to put on Ubuntu, and I have unzipped it on Windows Vista, and threw it on my USB Stick. Is there a command like sudo apt-usb add sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install TCP Viewer 2.82 Or something like that? I know there is one for apt-cdrom add, but how do you install software from USB? |
what file did you download?
If it is a deb Code:
dpkg -i PATH_TO_DEBFILE.deb then Code:
tar -xvzf foo.tar.gz Code:
tar -xvf foo.tar |
Note that dpkg, unlike apt, does not handle dependencies automatically, so you may also have to manually install everything that that package depends on first.
Compiling from source also has requirements. At the least you need to have the -dev packages for each library the program depends on installed. Apt also has no way of tracking programs that have been installed from source. But you can use the checkinstall application to get around that; it builds deb packages from source compiles. |
I downloaded TCP Viewer 2.82 onto my Windows Vista machine, unzipped it, and threw the setup.exe file and the readme.txt onto my USB Stick.
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Look for a linux alternative. |
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