Installing Indevisual Files From Sites

[Thilo Kuhlman]

This may be a dumb question but oh well. If I extract the files of an app, how do I get Ubuntu to install and run it? What are the install-run commands in terminal?

[gettinoriginal]

Once you have extracted the files, there should be a "read me" file, this should tell you how to install it.

To install from terminal:


sudo apt-get install <program name>

To run from terminal:


<program name>

[Thilo Kuhlman]

No. I mean like I have the files on a folder on my desktop, and I want to turn them into an installed application.

[oldos2er]

No. I mean like I have the files on a folder on my desktop, and I want to turn them into an installed application.

It depends on what the files in a folder are, e.g. source code, or precompiled binaries, or ?

[Thilo Kuhlman]

xlink kai downloaded files, whatever they are..they are just the files that make up the program

[oldos2er]

I'd start looking for any documentation that came with the program, README or INSTALL or something in a "docs" folder.

[Thilo Kuhlman]

Never mind. The program hardly works for Ubuntu, and I have it up and running on Window's. (If Ubuntu's version worked, I would of still pursued it, but this is a rush thing I'm trying to get done. Thanks for the help, though.