tbz file - questions

[anchorman]

Newbie 101 here -
I've downloaded a tbz file. I double-click on it and Archive Manager appears. Do I extract this in a specific directory, or is it OK to do so when it's in the Desktop? When I extract this file, is this all I need to do to get the programme working?

Thanks

[daark.child]

What program are you trying to install. Other steps will probably be needed in order to install the program.

[anchorman]

Have downloaded from Index of /beta
This is a listening comprehension program (for Mandarin learners).
I have downloaded the linux distribution. I'm using the latest Debian i386 OS.

[i92guboj]

I downloaded one of the files:
http://www.speakgoodchinese.org/beta...-04-26.tar.bz2

I uncompressed it, and it seems to be just a precompiled program, so, you just need to use cd and then launch the program.

cd sgc
./sgc.sh

It will work (provided that you have all the required libs).

[anchorman]

I've done this - keep getting a bash 'command not found' message.

cd sgc
./sgc.sh

ps If someone can provide a link to a how-to on dealing with unpackaged files ... thanks!

[smolloy]

Can you show us a list of the files in that directory?

cd sgc
ls -l

[i92guboj]

I've done this - keep getting a bash 'command not found' message.



ps If someone can provide a link to a how-to on dealing with unpackaged files ... thanks!

I can't stand clicky interfaces, so I'd do this: open a terminal (konsole, xterm, gnome-terminal or whatever), and then enter this commands:

cd ~
wget http://www.speakgoodchinese.org/beta/sgc-linux-bin-2008-04-26.tar.bz2
tar -xjf sgc-linux-bin-2008-04-26.tar.bz2
cd sgc
./sgc.sh

If it works, ok, if not, there must be an error message, and it shouldn't be a "command not found" one.

[anchorman]

Got this far
./sgc: error while loading shared libraries: libzip.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

have googled libzip.so.1 and only found stuff to do with RPM.

[i92guboj]

Got this far
./sgc: error while loading shared libraries: libzip.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

have googled libzip.so.1 and only found stuff to do with RPM.

You need to install libzip. Use your distro package manager for that.

[anchorman]

You need to install libzip. Use your distro package manager for that.

Have installed all Synaptic results for libzip, except that two produce the following:

Please insert the disk labeled:
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r1 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070820-20:21
in drive /cdrom/