Comments on: How to uncompress and install tar.gz/tar.bz2/rar packages in Ubuntu

By: ActionParsnip

ActionParsnip — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:39:52 +0000

Why not just install unp then it will be ONE command. What a waste of a web page

By: nick_4554

nick_4554 — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:19:54 +0000

for anyone reading this who is having problems with the ./configure step, you need to make sure you have build essentials installed on your machine (the terminal program used to build the installation). this is not installed by default (on 10.04 anyway)
open terminal and type:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
then you can sudo ./configure

By: Poul

Poul — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:03:39 +0000

No matter what I try… nothing works…
————– from terminal —-
sudo: ./configure: command not found
pba@pac:/media/DATA/INSTALL/LANscan/AutoScan-Network-Linux-1.50.bin$ sudo make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
pba@pac:/media/DATA/INSTALL/LANscan/AutoScan-Network-Linux-1.50.bin$
———-
I need a local LAN scanner. Any other posibility and only .deb file is usabel. I have tryed 100 times. tar.gz dosn’t work.
Regards
Poul

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:21:41 +0000

Hello sir, I am using maverick (pre-release) and need to install tar.gz files to run my network. None of your instructions work. All Ubuntu releases are ridiculously difficult and confusing. Greater simplification is required for software installations other than via synaptic or software centre.

By: nikesh

nikesh — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:18:55 +0000

hello sir,
when i use
#sudo ./configur
sudo: ./configure: command not found ..
what can i do
i m try all three options

By: Randy

Randy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:14:50 +0000

the genius of windows and mac is even 7 year olds can master it.
linux…it takes a bachelors degree to begin to understand it.

By: Padi Phillips

Padi Phillips — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:52:34 +0000

This is NOT clear. Many people will be new to Linux and therefore confused unless it’s made VERY clear what EXACTLY to do – simple systematic steps THAT ASSUME NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE. When are ‘geeks’ going to get that many people are very confused about how to do things, and NEED clear concise instructions in order to achieve success, and hopefully learn that the world doesn’t neccesarily revolve around Windows.