Linux Newbie can't install software

[VK5xx]

Hello All,

Please help, I am completely new to Linux and having trouble installing software.

The packages I am attempting to install are:

Google Chrome

Netbeans6.8

Codeweavers Crossover8
I followed the codeweaver instruction and in the user terminal I entered: sh install-crossover-pro-8.0.0.sh

The response I got was unable to find directory.

All of the above packages are on my desktop and in my Downloads folder. I have tried Synaptics without success. What to do next?

It's 0300 hours here (Australia), yawn, I will be back on later.

Regards VK5xx

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

You have to navigate to the Desktop first.

cd Desktop
ls
sh install-crossover-pro-8.0.0.sh

[svinoba]

Hello All,

Please help, I am completely new to Linux and having trouble installing software.

The packages I am attempting to install are:

Google Chrome

Netbeans6.8

Codeweavers Crossover8
I followed the codeweaver instruction and in the user terminal I entered: sh install-crossover-pro-8.0.0.sh

The response I got was unable to find directory.

All of the above packages are on my desktop and in my Downloads folder.

user terminal? desktop and Downloads folder?

I assume you have a directory named 'Downloads' on your desktop. In that case

cd Desktop/Downloads

then you need to get into the folder of the particular software. Is it unzipped? or just a zipped (i.e., tar.gz or tar.bz2 type) file? If it is already unzipped, get into that directory.

cd Desktop/Dowloads/<software-folder>

Then most often you need to be root to install the software so become root and execute the script (.sh) file. On Ubuntu like systems you can do

sudo sh install-crossover-pro-8.0.0.sh

[reed9]

Netbeans is in the repos.

su -
apt-get install netbeans-ide

EDIT: netbeans is in the contrib section, which may not be enabled by default.

For chrome, couple of options. Assuming you downloaded the deb package provided by google. (Google Chrome for Linux - Terms and Conditions Agreement)

Install gdebi, a GUI helper for installing deb packages.

su -
apt-get install gdebi

and then you should be able to just double click on the deb package.

Or use dpkg from the command line. Open a terminal and navigate to the correct directory, Desktop, Downloads, wherever. Then

su
dpkg -i google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb

[VK5xx]

Hello again,

Thankyou to all who replied, Devils Casper, svinoba and reed 9.

I have just installed Crossover successfully, I felt I have had a win with this!

Trying to install Netbeans, the installation came up with:

Additional 144.9 Mb required in /root/.nbi. Why is this so, why was this file insufficient when it was created when Debian 5 was installed and how can I fix it?


reed 9, I am in my root terminal:

/Desktop/Downloads#

typed the following:

su dpkg -i google-chome-beta_current-i386.deb

and got this response:

su: invalid option -- i
Usage: su [options] [LOGIN]

Options:
-c, --command COMMAND pass COMMAND to the invoked shell
-h, --help display this help message and exit
-, -l, --login make the shell a login shell
-m, -p,
--preserve-environment do not reset environment variables, and
keep the same shell
-s, --shell SHELL use SHELL instead of the default in passwd

What did I do wrong?

Regards VK5xx

[reed9]

su dpkg -i google-chome-beta_current-i386.deb

and got this response:

su: invalid option -- i
Usage: su [options] [LOGIN]

Enter su first to log in as root.

su

Then

dpkg -i google-chome-beta_current-i386.deb

If you are already logged in as root, you do not need to.

To run just a command with root priviliges, you could do it as so

su -c 'dpkg -i google-chome-beta_current-i386.deb'

Or setup your user with sudo privileges.
sudo - Debian Wiki
SUDO Configuration in Debian

[VK5xx]

Hello it's me again, VK5xx,

Thankyou reed9 for your response.

Trying to load Google Chrome in Debian is getting a little tedious.

Have tried numerous times with no success. I am beginning to wonder if the file is corrupt. I downloaded it again and tried to load it, but still no result.

I am in Root Terminal, with the Chrome package on my Desktop.

This is what I coded:

/Desktop# su -c 'dpkg -i google-chrome-beta_current-i386.deb'

The result:

dpkg: error processing google-chrome-beta_current-i386.deb (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
google-chrome-beta_current-i386.deb

[reed9]

Things to check.

1. Are you in the correct directory?
Commands to help determine this

pwd
ls

pwd will print the current working directory, so if I'm user joebob is in his home directory, it would print /home/joebob

ls lists files and directories. If the chromium deb isn't listed, you're in the wrong place.

Note you can always include the full path to the file, ie

dpkg -i /home/joebob/Downloads/google-chrome-beta_current-i386.deb

For the file google-chrome-beta_current-i386.deb in joebob's home folder under the Downloads directory.

2. Is google-chrome-beta_current-i386.deb the correct filename? I used that because it was the download I saw from the Google website. Is that the same file you downloaded?

[VK5xx]

Hello reed9

The 2 packages I am trying to install are:

google-chrome-beta_current_i386.deb

netbeans-6.8-ml-linux.sh

These file names are how they appear on my desktop as I downloaded them and have not moved them.

Sorry about my apparent dumbness. I am trying to do this.

1. I am trying the Netbeans installation, I had to rename the file by adding 'install' to the name.

It is now:

install-netbeans-6.8-ml-linux.sh

It would have instllled ok except it apparently did not have enough disc space, it came back with:

Insufficient disc space for extracting installation data. Additional 147.2 MB is required in /root/.nbi

Why is this file not big enough? How do I fix it?

2. I have done a list and have the Google file on my desktop and I'm in the correct directory (Desktop).
It still does not load, I am logging off now it is 0317 hrs here. I am at the point of giving up on this, I don't know what I am doing wrong, sorry.

Regards VK5xx

[reed9]

Insufficient disc space for extracting installation data. Additional 147.2 MB is required in /root/.nbi

Why is this file not big enough? How do I fix it?

Post the output of

su -c 'fdisk -l'
df -h

Though as I said, it would be easier to install netbeans through your package manager.

Post the output of

pwd
ls