Newbie Can't Install

[aperla]

I would like to use the SmartBoard software. They do provide the software for linux.. I have tried to follow their instructions for installation....the package was downloaded with autopackage. Unfortunately autopackage doesn't seem to work

SMART Notebook software with drivers 10. tar.gz

I tried using terminal....but my terminal skills are greatly limited. SmartBoat does state that they tested their software with ubuntu......any hel would be greatly appreciated.


Thanks

[donaldfarkas]

im quite the newbie my self but the tar.gz files you have to have a compiler installed and compile the file in the terminal then it would install it afterwards.

[aperla]

im quite the newbie my self but the tar.gz files you have to have a compiler installed and compile the file in the terminal then it would install it afterwards.

I know I'm limited in my linux knowledge....but the research that I have done...tells me that if autoplay code does not work you can run an install script in the downloaded archive. Unfortunately, there are no other files in the archive to view. I could use any direction.....

[Zeroangel]

Well, it is often the case that you need to run the install script with root (administrator) priviliges, you can often get these by typing 'sudo ' in front of your command. If the name of the script was 'autoinstall' then you might type something like this.

sudo ./autoinstall

And this will ask you for the adminstrator password (its the same as your user password) and then begin the installation.

In some cases you may need to compile the software. Compiling is not difficult to do, but requires you to have a package called 'build-essential' installed. If a package is meant to be compiled it will often have files inside of it called things like 'configure' and 'make'