Installing Downloaded Package

[Dan++]

I'd like to install a beta version of a package available through synaptic (release is 6.8, beta is 6.10), called testdisk, so I downloaded it, decompressed the tar.gz and here's the structure:


.:
AUTHORS COPYING ico linux README
ChangeLog documentation.html INFO NEWS THANKS

./ico:
photorec.ico testdisk.ico

./linux:
l photorec.1 photorec_static readme.txt testdisk.1 testdisk_static

./linux/l:
linux


There's supposed to be a binary I can run, according to my searches on Google, but I'm not sure where or how to run it.

Any ideas? Thanks!:)

[hal8000]

Here's the install instructions:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Compilation

after installing the executable may not be in /usr/sbin so you may have to look for it if its not on the path.

With HH 8.04 testdisk 6.8 installs to /usr/sbin, so after installing you may find that it installs to /usr/local

The changelog between 6.8 and 6.10 offers only some small improvements so its up to you if you decide to test beta software on a stable system.
Hope that helps

[Dan++]

Here's the install instructions:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Compilation

after installing the executable may not be in /usr/sbin so you may have to look for it if its not on the path.

With HH 8.04 testdisk 6.8 installs to /usr/sbin, so after installing you may find that it installs to /usr/local

The changelog between 6.8 and 6.10 offers only some small improvements so its up to you if you decide to test beta software on a stable system.
Hope that helps
Don't those instructions apply only to the source version?

And it's not so much testing beta software as needing the new features :) 6.8 doesn't search for txt files (the files I need most from my broken disk) without causing an error, and apparently 6.10 fixes that.

Thanks :)