install a tz.gz file

[Alan Dacey (grokit)]

What you are trying to do is compile the source.  It must be uncompressed first.
Komposer is OK but I'm not sure if it's even actively developed anymore.  
I've been using Aptana Studio 3 lately and find it a much better solution. [1]

Alan

[1] http://www.aptana.com/products/studio3/download.html

On Monday, June 08, 2015 6:22:22 PM 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 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
> 
> 
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