I thought it’d be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it

  • Kualdir@feddit.nl
    5·
    8 hours ago

    I installed mint yesterday and am having a PAIN installing anything not in the software manager. Currently stuck on teamspeak as my first thing to try. Got a tar.gz and can’t find anything well explained online (as of yet, it was already 3 hours just to get mint to dual boot and I was exhausted)

    • TimeNaan@lemmy.world
      5·
      8 hours ago

      With .tar.gz software usually the steps are:

      1. Extract the archive
      2. Find a file with the .sh extention - that’s the shell script. It will most likely be named something like install.sh
      3. Make it executable - by right clicking and enabling it in the properties or by opening a terminal in this folder and using a command:
      chmod +x install.sh
      1. Run the installer in the terminal:
      ./install.sh

      It might ask you to run it as root and quit. In that case put a sudo before the command above and it will ask you for your password

      sudo ./install.sh

      And tbat’s it, installation should begin. Follow the instructions in your terminal.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Can’t say for TeamSpeak, but will say for Linux: setting everything up and figuring out your steps in edge cases is the hardest part. Once you figure it out, it gets so much easier.