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Re: [LUG] Not-so-simple install ?

 

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jack Oley <jackoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all.  Further to my struggles with a shortcut to an .sh file, it has
> (slowly) dawned on me that what I actually need to do is to install the app
> (Eldy) from the tarball (.gz) what I downloaded.  Instructions on the Ubuntu
> site are complex and did not work (there is no config file).  Can anyone
> tell me how I install from this file, please?  As ever, many thanks.   Jack.

I may have missed an earlier thread of context here and be talking
about something completely different but it looks like the eldy tar
ball is java binaries. I expect the ubuntu instructions you found were
relating to building a package from a source tar ball where the usual
case is to run ./configure then make etc . In the case of eldy you
just need to unpack that tarball somewhere convenient and create a
short cut to the main jar file. you may need to make the shortcut
involve the java runtime with a command like "java -jar
/path/to/wherever/you/installed/it/eldy/eldy.jar" But i would hope any
modern distro would already know how to execute a jar file ( assuming
you also of cause have the java run time installed). If you don't have
java installed you need to "apt-get install sun-java6-jre" or use your
favorite package manager.

Robin

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