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Tar.gz problems
Name: ACW Date: March 17, 2007 at 12:33:09 Pacific OS: Linux Mint CPU/Ram: AMD X2 3500 Product: Self build
Comment:
I am New to Linux and I am trying to install a program called LightZone, which is a tar.gz file. I opened a terminal and typed the command tar -zxvf/LightZone-rev.6903.tar.gz, and extracted it to my home directory. Next I did Cd home/--------/LightZone and it came up bash ./configure no such file or directory If I open my home folder I can see the folder the files were extracted to so what am I doing wrong
Name: ACW Date: March 17, 2007 at 12:37:32 Pacific
Reply:
I missed a line out, after changing directory it read home/-------/Lightzone and I issued the command ./configure and it came up as in the post above about no file or directory.
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Response Number 2
Name: Anton Kast Date: March 17, 2007 at 15:37:35 Pacific
Reply:
LightZone is distributed as an executable binary. You launch it by typing "LightZone" in that folder, not "configure".
A "configure" script would be normal for a source distribution that you compile yourself.
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Response Number 3
Name: ACW Date: March 19, 2007 at 02:55:34 Pacific
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