Some projects only give you .tar.gz, what am I supposed to do with them? Is this what people call building from source? Am I supposed to move it to /opt and extract it in Debian based distros? Does this also work on Arch based ones?

  • ghost_laptopOP
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    3 years ago

    Well, I meant when you download it from a project’s repo, which is pretty much always the code.

    • Kinetix@lemmy.ca
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      3 years ago

      Sure, if that’s where it’s from, that makes sense that’s what it would be.

      If they don’t provide build instructions, you may be on your own.