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H.Delbrook

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Registered: 2008-11-06

Posts: 10

<SOLVED>Installing tar.gz from the desktop

How do you install a tar.gz package that's been downloaded to my desktop (lxde)?
Or for that matter from a CD/DVD?

I can uncompress it ok but nothing I've tried can actually install the package.
If I use the install command then - where do you install packages to?

Thanks

Last edited by H.Delbrook (2008-11-07 12:37:12)

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Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 286

Re: <SOLVED>Installing tar.gz from the desktop

Perhaps you are looking for `pacman -U`, see `man pacman` for details.