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How to install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file?

I had already tried many things but none of them worked. I've tried tar xzf file.tar.gz(replacing file by the package name). I'm using 12.04.1 precise pangolin.

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Untar the file using command

 tar xjvf tarball_package.tar.bz2

or

 tar xzvf tarball_package.tar.gz

If there is a .deb(Precompiled binaries) file in the extracted package. You can install it using command dpkg -i package_name.deb

If its a source file then you need to compile it using the following commands.

./configure 
make
make install

For more information read this Ubuntu help page

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