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Danny27
Asked: 2021-09-21 00:35:30 +0800 CST

How to install .tar.gz lacking both ./configure and ./bin?

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I want to install Chaotica https://www.chaoticafractals.com/download on Ubuntu 20.04.2. It does not contain an installation instruction. There is a README, but it contains only license and thanks, nothing on installation or launching.

I've found several instructions for using tarballs with ./configure and make, but the unpacked folder does not contain a ./configure file. Then I found instructions using bin, but there is neither a bin folder nor a bin file in the unpacked tar. Are there other ways to install? Thanks!

20.04

1 Answers

  1. On Microsoft Windows such applications are called portable.

    So you can simply download the archive and then run main executable as follows:

    cd ~/Downloads
wget -c https://www.chaoticafractals.com/dist/chaotica_x64_v2.0.36.tar.gz
tar -xf chaotica_x64_v2.0.36.tar.gz
cd chaotica_x64_v2.0.36
./chaotica

    If you want to install it to, for example, /opt, then use commands below:

    sudo mkdir -p /opt/chaotica
sudo cp -ar ~/Downloads/chaotica_x64_v2.0.36/* /opt/chaotica
sudo ln -s /opt/chaotica/chaotica /usr/local/bin/chaotica

    And finally create desktop-file for it:

    mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons
cd ~/.local/share/icons
wget https://www.chaoticafractals.com/sites/all/themes/chaotica/favicon.ico -O chaotica.ico

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/
cd ~/.local/share/applications/

cat <<EOF > chaotica.desktop # copy from this line to EOF, then paste
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Icon=/home/$USER/.local/share/icons/chaotica.ico
Exec=chaotica
Name=Chaotica
EOF

    and then launch it from dash/menu.

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