how to install a .package?

[Nils Kassube]

Mauro Sanna wrote:
> On 13 September 2013 22:00, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> > tail --bytes=1169788 LaCie\ Network\ Assistant\ 1.1\ Linux.package |
> > lzma -d | tar x
> 
> Sorry for my ignorance, can you explain what that command does?

The .package file is a bash script with additional data appended. The 
interesting part is at the end which is a .tar.lzma file. The command 
consists of several parts:

"tail --bytes=1169788 LaCie\ Network\ Assistant\ 1.1\ Linux.package" 
prints the file to standard output but it removes the first 1169788 
bytes which are the bash script and the downloader for the autopackage 
files.

With the "|" the output of the tail command is passed to "lzma -d" which 
uncompresses the input and prints the result to the standard output.

The output is passed to "tar x" which unpacks the input (which is 
actually a tar file now) in the current directory.

And from your other post I can see that you need these additional 
packages:

libssl0.9.8 libgtk2.0-0 libatk1.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libpango1.0-0 
libxinerama1 libavahi-common3 libavahi-client3

Well, those are the package names for Ubuntu 12.04. If you are using 
another Ubuntu version, please install the package apt-file and run the 
command

sudo apt-file update

Maybe that is done automatically during installation already, but it 
doesn't hurt to run it again. Then search for each library with a 
command like

apt-file search libssl.so.0.9.8

etc. - that shows the package names you need.


Nils