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Okay, i'm fucked, i found an application i want to use on ubuntu, but it is not possible to install it with apt install, and the website also doesn't provide any .deb package. All it gives me is a tar.gz file which is i am gusseing some sort of source file? Is there some easy way to install it on ubuntu? I don't really want to do it if it's one of those #linuxthings that takes 18 hours of googling and begging on stackoverflow to finish
Logan Rivera
it would help if you told us what you want to install
Jackson Cruz
Imagine having having a photo signing, but not because you are a Hollywood famous movie actor, or a respected book actor.. but simply because you are a whore who likes to get fucked on camera, so you don't even pose for photos with virgins gover handing your sholder.. nope .. you pose while giving pretent blow jobs and shit.. it's so degrading and humiliating... it must feel great, i envy her so much, i wish i was a grill, i would be such a massive slut ;_;
Lucas Richardson
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Ayden Ross
>tar.gz It's a compressed archive, could be a lot of things. See what's inside.
Sebastian Bailey
It's like an application from apt depository but it's in a tar.gz instead I fucking hate tar.gz so much. Every time i find some cool app and click on the download section i pray to fucking got it says "install by typing apt install shit" or by providing a .deb file But by worst nightmare is seeing a fucking tar.gz because u know that means i ain't getting shit
Brandon Ward
Yes, you need to compile it.
First extract the tar.gz (it's an archive). tar xf yourarchive.tar.gz Inside, there should be a README or a INSTALL file with instructions how to compile it. You cann view these files via less INSTALL Use "j" and "k" to scroll up and down.
Oliver Lee
what i wanted to know is the name of the application
Thomas Gonzalez
Don't need help but just curious:
I have an AMD A series APU and a GTX 950 GPU.
I couldn't get them work with Debian and Trisquel. Can't change the resolution and shit. I know that Debian and Trisquel are completely free unless you go out of your way.
But both the APU and the GPU worked perfectly fine with Ubuntu, Mint and Manjaro, even when I stayed away from all proprietary software. Didn't install amd or nvidia's drivers.
What is the reason behind this? What do Ubuntu, Mint and Manjaro have that Debian and Trisquel don't?
Also an Xubuntu's manual it says that you can't play mp3s without proprietary codec. I haven't installed any, but I can play mp3 just fine, how is this possible? Not that I want to be unable to play mp3s, but what's the reason behind this?
Joseph King
Stick to two colors! I vote for magenta + blue.
Jaxson Hughes
I kinda like it this way
James Bennett
>1960x1102 why? why not 1920 < 1080?
James Anderson
It's a photo, silly.
Luke Adams
isn't squashfs for max compression? how is it good for performance?
Jaxson Reyes
GNU is my userland.
Jaxon Gonzalez
>tfw you spend most of your time clicking the random button on distrowatch and trying ISOs how do I quit distrohopping
Justin Gonzalez
What do you want, a headpat? You needy little shit.
Aiden Cruz
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Carson Flores
install void. You will never want to distrohop again
Aiden Watson
stop hating yourself and get over whatever issues you have
Wyatt Brown
what ever you do, don't isntall void. You will never stop distrohopping
Oliver Jones
/fglt/ IRC channel WHEN!!?
Adam Bell
what's the best japanese ime for arch what's a good font choice to display kanji as well do i need to mess around with locale at all or just install font/ime?
Nathaniel Smith
We got one back in the days. Nobody cared so it was merged to #sqt.
Jackson Gutierrez
does green tea go well with milk?
Cameron Nelson
What are your most useful aliases?
Isaac Phillips
yeah but I can't leave the country for the next 9 months
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Jayden Evans
GNU Unifont
Joshua Green
>Nobody cared You mean it was taken down for being new and have as few users like any channel just starting?
David Cruz
Time to make one.
Jayden Ramirez
Thats not how you start a channel. Create a channel.
Jordan Howard
>IRC b-but then everyone knows my ip and will hack me
Christopher Roberts
Are there any usable wayland wms yet?
Parker Gomez
Use a bouncer/mask/cloak/etc you nigger
Adam James
>GNU Unifont how would you recommend i use that? just the default on everything in i3? i'm using dejavu for my current fonts. you use it yourself or it's just a free font choice that has unicode stuff
Grayson Reed
alias ls='ls --color=auto --group-directories-first -F -X' alias diff='colordiff'
# Set urxvt font alias font="printf '\e]710;%s\007'"
# Show toilet fonts alias showtoifonts='for i in ${TOILET_FONT_PATH:=/usr/share/figlet}/*.{t,f}lf; do j=${i##*/}; echo $j; toilet -d "${i%/*}" -f "$j" "${j%.*}"; done'
# Upload piped text to ix.io (pastebin alternative) alias ix.io="curl -F 'f:1=
Cameron Ortiz
just install and use I use it to display chineese workspace numbers in my bar
Mason Edwards
no
Ethan Young
I WANT TO HAVE RICHARD STALLMAN'S BABIES
Luke Cook
stallman is not for breeding
Brandon Gutierrez
ok
Brayden Miller
what's the best obscure meme distro
Brandon Campbell
alias top='echo kek'
Hunter Bell
How do I go about creating a boot CD that loads a custom script and executes it? Lightweight live CD linux distro with a bash script on it to execute?
Also, is it possible to have Ubuntu live CD that will jump straight into the system when booting, and not present the installation choice?
Hunter Miller
How to stop following these threads?
Sebastian Lee
buy a mac
Mason Harris
commit sudoku
Brayden Bell
how do i verify sigs on win7
Jason Peterson
rm rf /
Grayson Hill
user pls i want to linux found a retard distro for retards am too retard to check sig
Aiden Brown
yes
Angel Murphy
It's fine, as long as it isn't Linux Mint you have basically no reason to worry.
>Based on Arch/Parabola testing >OpenRC (no systemd) >Linux-Libre kernel, completely free, fsf endorsed(?) >LTS stability and security of Debian packages
I think this is the distro we've been waiting for.
How did you find this gem? I've been looking for something like this.
Ethan Parker
Got a spare laptop with Win 7 on it and looking to get into Linux. Where exactly should I start? I'm just gonna guess Mint for distro since I'm new but how should I go about it? Should I just VirtualBox it, or Live CD? Or should I figure out how to dual boot?
Aiden Walker
I was reading the Trisquel forums to see how the updates were going (they're not), and someone mentioned it there. Been using it for two days now and its comfy af.
>update my ubuntu installation >everything breaks and/or feels slower and shittier I thought this was just a meme
Jose Gutierrez
I can't get the i3blocks mediaplayer working. I've installed playerctl but it doesn't seem to find/see cmus?
Logan Fisher
>Hyperbola Linux Hyperbola GNU/GNU Linux-libre*
Jacob Gomez
#fgt at Rizon?
Mason Morales
could someone make a distro that was actually a mod that worked in a fallout 4 terminal?
Anthony Bell
fgt=f*g**t?
Colton Campbell
I've created an ipset list using ipset create blocklist hash:net
and adding ips to it using ipset add blocklist X.X.X.X
But when i go to add the ipset list to iptables with iptables -I INPUT -m set --match-set blocklist src -j DROP
It says iptables: No chain/target/match by that name
Am i missing a command somewhere?
Benjamin Gomez
GNU/Linux* Lottery
Ryan Gomez
forgive me Stallman for I have sinned
Dylan Smith
yeah :^)
Nathan Baker
did ya make sure your system was up to par before upgrading?
Wyatt Hall
It's systemd's fault
Ryder Stewart
werks on my machine. It's actually a lot snappier.
Cooper Watson
Happens *every* Ubuntu release. Honestly, it's the main reason why I don't recommend that people use *buntus, especially vanilla Ubuntu.
Easton Carter
This is why the world needs declarative package managers
Juan Jenkins
Mp3 patent expired ages ago.
Elijah Peterson
Don't fucking worry about it. If you managed to install a .deb, you can definitely install whatever comes in that tar.gz as well. Do tar -xzf package.tar.gz and then see what's inside, most likely you're gonna have to compile it from source, which is as simple as "make && sudo make install".
If you're uncomfortable with a terminal you can easily find yourself a GUI program for dealing with tar archives.
Kayden Campbell
What are the advantages of Qt or KDE programs (not DE's) over GTK? Should I strive to install only one type of programs so the configs stay consistent?
Carter Rodriguez
None No
Easton White
They are not GTK programs No
Logan Long
Pirates are now packing Windows games with Flatpak and spreading them that way. Those nasty pirates let you play those games just by downloading a single file and running it with Flatpak, everything is already configured.
(Make sure you have the latest Flatpak installed for this to work, the version avaliable in Ubuntu is outdated and gives you a GPG error. Just install the latest one from flatpak.org/getting.html)
Michael Martinez
10/10
Matthew Ortiz
>Pirates are now packing Windows games with Flatpak and spreading them that way. It has begun
Owen Harris
artix >arch based >systemd free >comes in 13wm or lxqt flavors. It's like it's custom made for Sup Forumstards.
