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What am I supposed to do with .tar.gz? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some projects only give you .tar.gz, what am I supposed to do with them? Is this what people call building from source? Am I supposed to move it to /opt and extract it in Debian based distros? Does this also work on Arch based ones?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (10 children)

What if it doesnt have any instructions?

What do you mean about using the AUR?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (8 children)

Hmm, then it sort of depends on the project. And I mean the AUR might already have it compiled for you or in an easier form for Arch users. But if you are using Debian and your your question was "will this compile the same way on Arch and Debian" then the answer is simply yes!

What project are you trying to compile?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (7 children)

I am trying to install Foxit Reader and WineGUI for a friend on Manjaro, I found the latter on the AUR I think, so I should run yay install wine-gui-git?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Manjaro is an Archlinux based Linux Distro. So you can install an UNTRUSTED user package like wine-gui-git with an AUR helper like yay/paru/... like you mentioned.

But please install not software you don't understand how to build. It can be dangerous code.

For the package wine-gui-git the building script is https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=wine-gui-git . So you can look and learn how to build the software by yourself.

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