Okay, here's a question.
I find an interesting program at sourceforge.net
I downlaod a  blah.tgz    or blah.tar.gz.
I then say Extract to new directory named blah
I then got a lot of garbage-- it looks like a bunch of libraries and man, 
po, src, etc, CVS subdirectories but no bloody app!  What's the deal??



"Ross" <rli### [at] everestkcnet> wrote in message 
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> "gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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>> Aside from the GUI issue, I also have to compile what I d/l'ed, correct?
>> Was stumped there too.
>>
>>
>
> If you downloaded the source, then yes. If you can find prebuilt packages,
> then nope. Kanotix is a debian based distribution as far as I can tell. 
> the
> first thing I would try is doing "apt-get install mplayer". that will try 
> to
> look into the package repositories you have set in /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> if it doesn't work, you will need to add new repositories to
> /etc/apt/sources.list. take a look at that file, it's usually well 
> commented
> and might have repositories that you can simply uncomment. after doing 
> that
> or manually entering a new repository, you will need to run "apt-get 
> update"
> which will query the repositories for available packages. then, again try
> "apt-get install mplayer". presuming you have the correct repositories
> specified, it will find mplayer and it's dependencies, then install them.
> mencoder should be a part of the mplayer package, if not, try "apt-get
> install mencoder" for kicks, but i don't know if that works or is 
> necessary.
>
> apt-get is usefull for installing binary packages so you don't have to
> compile them on your own.
>
> alternately, you could find debian .deb packages somewhere online, 
> download
> them, and install them with the "dpkg" command. if i remember correctly, 
> the
> command would be something like "dpkg -i mplayer.deb" or whatever the 
> actual
> downloaded .deb package is called. This process should also check to see 
> if
> you have the needed dependencies in place, but won't automatically resolve
> those dependencies.
>
> good luck!
> ross
>
>

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