[xubuntu-users] How to Install a tar.gz?

[Chris Jones]

>
> What particular application is it? There might very well be  
> alternate, better ways of obtaining an installer for Xubuntu as you  
> normally don't want to install from source (or at least if you don't  
> really know how to do it). Instructions are usually in a file named  
> INSTALL in the .tar.gz (which you can extract by double-clicking on  
> it to obtain the source). But again, first tell us which application  
> it is because you most likely don't want to do this.

I agree with the above, but if you *do* need to install an  
application, take a look at checkinstall

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall

which will let you create a .deb file from the source install tarball

Chris

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