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Asked: 2013-07-08 04:22:54 +0800 CST

Where to locate a tgz file and contents of it?

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I downloaded processing-2.0.1-linux64.tgz.

In Windows, when I download a non-install software (.exe) I locate it under Program Files directory so that it stays with other software. I don't want it to run in Downloads or somewhere else. I'm vety miticulous about my directory structure.

So in Ubuntu I want processing software to run just like firefox. I mean when I write 'proc' , it should show up in gnome activities window. I don't know where to locate a tgz file and contents of it? There is "Add downloaded package" in Synaptic file menu. I tried it however the tgz file was disabled, not clickable.

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This is contents of processing-2.0.1 folder.

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1 Answers

  1. Firstly a .tgz file is not a program file. It is an gz compressed tar archive file, and as such is not runnable. Usually, this will be a source package and will need to be built.

    It appears you have already expanded it into a directory. If not the command tar xzf processing-2.0.1-linux64.tgz' will expand it. I would copy or move it to/opt` and expand it there

    From the contents it appears to be Java based program. And will fail if you don't have Java installed.

    Open a terminal window and cd to directory where you have expanded the archive. Try running processing and processing-java. Remember which one starts the program as you want.

    To run the program from the classpath (assumes expanded to /opt/processing-2.0.1) create the following file in a different directory. (I'll use the name processing ). 

    #!/usr/bin/bash
cd /opt/processing-2.0.1
./processing

    Then run the following command to add make it executable it to /usr/local/bin. 

    sudo mv processing /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/processing

    You can also edit the menu to add a new item, or create a desktop icon. In either case you would use the full path to the program.

    To understand where linux puts its file read the output of the command man hier.

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