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Amatereasu

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Registered: 2023-04-22

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installing stuff from tar.gz etc

this is more of a general question, but where should i put programs that ive installed by extracting a tar file? i want it to be recognized as a program like if i were to install it from command line
thanks ^^

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,255

Re: installing stuff from tar.gz etc

You should write a PKGBUILD so they can be properly handled and maintained by pacman. But if you really feel you must use a random tar.gz then what people often do is a dedicated /bin dir or so in their $HOME dir they add to their path (or alternatively the "dedicated" structure under /usr/local ). Really generally you shouldn't need to be doing this, which software are you talking about exactly and have you actually verified there's no AUR package for it?

That's for the executable binaries, if you are looking for desktop integration you'd either write a desktop file or use one provided by the package if applicable: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries

Last edited by V1del (2023-04-27 22:41:27)

Amatereasu

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Registered: 2023-04-22

Posts: 11

Re: installing stuff from tar.gz etc

You should write a PKGBUILD so they can be properly handled and maintained by pacman. But if you really feel you must use a random tar.gz then what people often do is a dedicated /bin dir or so in their $HOME dir they add to their path (or alternatively the "dedicated" structure under /usr/local ). Really generally you shouldn't need to be doing this, which software are you talking about exactly and have you actually verified there's no AUR package for it?

i have not checked, but i thought they would have told me if it was; https://www.torproject.org/download/, but i do see there's a package, though out of date https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/tor/
desktop isnt necessary, wm

Last edited by Amatereasu (2023-04-27 22:43:59)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: installing stuff from tar.gz etc

If you don't want to use the repo package use the AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tor-browser if you don't know what the AUR is read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: installing stuff from tar.gz etc

I am not sure why that community package is flagged as out-of-date -- the tor download page lists version 0.4.7.13 as the latest download, and that's the same version as the package.

Amatereasu

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Registered: 2023-04-22

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Re: installing stuff from tar.gz etc

If you don't want to use the repo package use the AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tor-browser if you don't know what the AUR is read: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository

oh! i never knew that was separate from the usual site, ill be bookmarking that lol
thank you <3

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: installing stuff from tar.gz etc

I am not sure why that community package is flagged as out-of-date -- the tor download page lists version 0.4.7.13 as the latest download, and that's the same version as the package.

Afaik that's all of the general tor integration stuff not the browser in particular, FWIW apparently there's also https://archlinux.org/packages/communit … -launcher/ which will help with properly setting up the browser without an AUR package.

arojas

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Registered: 2011-10-09

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Re: installing stuff from tar.gz etc

I am not sure why that community package is flagged as out-of-date -- the tor download page lists version 0.4.7.13 as the latest download, and that's the same version as the package.

Because people keep abusing the out of date flag form to report all kind of random issues.