Targz without configure

**tempester** · March 18th, 2013

Hello. I am rather new to Linux, and I have a problem with installing a tar.gz fie.
I've always had problems installing these types of files, but now I desperately need this program, so I need this problem solved.
on this website https://code.google.com/p/opentumblr/downloads/list i found a program that manages multiple tumblr accounts. I want to install it, but my tar.gz file does not have a configure file.
I saw on forums that you need to run three commands to install a tarball:
./configure
make
make install

none of these work. my file contains only:
AUTHORS
INSTALL
LICENSE
README
setup.py
THANKS
uninstall.sh
opentumblr-qt.desktop

and two folders named "images" and "opentumblrqt"

Install file contains:
INSTALLATION STEPS

* LINUX
#easy_install simplejson
#easy_install poster
#tar -zxvf opentumblr-qt-version.tar.gz
#cd opentumblr-qt-version
#python setup.py install

Run OpenTumblr
$opentumblr-qt-client.py

README file contains:
OpenTumblr-Qt
Tumblr client based on Opentumblr

REQUIREMENTS
poster ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/poster/0.4 )
simplejson ( http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/ )
python-qt4 ( PyQt4 )
python

DEVELOPERS
Alejandro Villanueva a.k.a iAlex
Jair Gaxiola a.k.a jyr

BLOG
http://blog.opentumblr.com

IRC
irc.freenode.net (#opentumblr)

someone please help me, i really need this program installed

**steeldriver** · March 18th, 2013

Hello and welcome

The configure / make / make install steps only apply to source code tar packages

EDIT: see schragge's post below - best option is always to instal from standard repos if possible

**schragge** · March 18th, 2013

As simplejson and poster are in the official repositories, instead of easy_install'ing them, try

Code:

sudo apt-get install python-{qt4,simplejson,poster}

If the versions from the Ubuntu repository don't work, you will need to easy_install newer versions from PyPI. In order to do that, install python-setuptools first:

Code: