install a tz.gz file

[Charles T. Bell]

On 06/08/2015 05:22 AM, Thomas wrote:
> Good evening
> I am trying to install "KompoZer" on kubuntu (also on xubuntu / Mint)
> but cannot make it work.
> Could anybody please instruct me how to "install" (somewhere on the net
> is says, these files are not "installed) the software?
> 
> Kubuntu 14.014, 64-bit
> * downloaded most recent package (kompozer-08b3 en-US)
> * unpacked the file and now have a folder named "kompozer"
> * according to the "instructions" I found on the net, I am supposed to:
> use the command |cd| to navigate to the correct folder. If there is a
> README file with installation instructions, use that instead.
> -> There is/are not such file(s)
> 
> 1.
> 
>    |./configure|
> 
> 2. |make|
> 3. |sudo make install|
> 
> -> WHERE am I supposed to do that? It does neither work IN the
> "kompozer" folder nor from the home folder.
> 
> When I try:
> sudo apt-get install kompozer-0.8b3.en-US.gcc4.2-i686.tar.gz
> 

I recommend that you uncompress the
file"Kompozer-0.8b3.en-US.gcc4.2-i686.tar.gz" to a directory using ARK
or some file decompressor for ".tar.gz"
Enter that directory and whatever directory the Kompozer files are
located in and start from there.  You may need to read the README file
that is normally included.
Since this is a compressed file, you cannot "./configure" or "make" it
as is.  You MUST decompress it first.

> I get the message, there is no such package.
> 
> Under Windows I install the same program by clicking on the downloaded
> file and wait for the installation to end.
> That is user friendly.
> 
> Is there no way under Linux to accomplish the same task at least A
> LITTLE BIT more easily?
> (right now I have been toiling for hours and am not getting anywhere ...)
> 
> Thank you
> Thomas
> 

-- 
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing" .- Edmund Burke
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