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GE_bill
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downloading and installing to the pi

Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:53 pm

Greetings.

So far all I know how to do to install software to the rasberry pi is to use the sudo apt-get command. How does one go about installing a .tar.gx file ?

Thank you

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Re: downloading and installing to the pi

Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:19 pm

tar.gx not idea
tar.gz possibly :-
tar xfv tar.gz

cd tar
./configure
make
sudo make install

[change tar to be whatever.tar]

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Re: downloading and installing to the pi

Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:22 pm

GE_bill wrote:Greetings.

So far all I know how to do to install software to the rasberry pi is to use the sudo apt-get command. How does one go about installing a .tar.gx file ?

Thank you
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