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I've just installed the newest Ubuntu version on a 2015 mac book air, thanks to the bright engineers over at Apple, the wifi card doesn't work out the box and so I had to download the tar file from the developers website. However, I don't know how to install it. I have seen that you can execute a bunch of line in the command prompt along the lines of ./configure and make, but those are programs that I have to install over the internet. I can't do this for obvious reasons (I don't have any means to access the interenet.)

Is there any solution you guys can suggest?

Thanks guys

SamBkamp
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tar -zxf filename.tgz

should do it

However, if the tarball contains sourcecode which you have to build I'm afraid you won't be able to avoid installing developer packages that will allow you to build the package from source. Providing the link/driver you are talking about could shed some more light on what the problem is (maybe there are alternatives to install it).

Also: you can download the packages and copy over USB stick, and move them to your laptop and install them with dpkg -i packagename.deb so internet is not necessary, but very helpful.

Jan Myszkier
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  • -xzvf works but that only extracts it, the driver is the one for this device: https://www.broadcom.com/products/wireless/wireless-lan-infrastructure/bcm4360#overview – SamBkamp Feb 14 '19 at 23:47
  • Can you please check this first? https://askubuntu.com/questions/592555/installing-broadcom-wireless-drivers-for-chip-id-bcm4360-pci-id-14e443a0 – Jan Myszkier Feb 15 '19 at 08:24