How to take the executable file of the particular software and install in other system?

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How to take the executable file of the particular software and install in other system like we tacking back up in android applications

Can you expand your question, please. What exactly you want to be taken? Executables not need to be installed, they only need their environment to be executed properly. — c0rp, Jan 20 '14 at 09:32
take an example Eclipse.I have it in my pc but i want to install the software in my lap how can i done it — Boopathi, Jan 20 '14 at 09:37
You can just download it from official site, and export your settings and projects, if you worried about them. Or I do not understand you? Why do you want to take it? — c0rp, Jan 20 '14 at 09:44
Generally eclipse is portable, that means that it can be just copied to another computer with the same OS, because binaries usually OS specific. I expand my answer — c0rp, Jan 20 '14 at 10:03
this should help: How can I install software or packages without Internet (offline)? — rusty, Jan 20 '14 at 10:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

This answer helps if you only need to move eclipse to another computer, with same OS, which is Ubuntu

There is a better generous solution in comments, given by user hash.

First of all you should find where exactly you eclipse installation folder is. Usually it is /usr/lib/eclipse. You can put it in tar sudo tar -pcvzf eclipse.tar.gz /usr/lib/eclipse, and copy to your another computer.

Then do this line by line on computer where you want to copy:

cd /usr/lib
sudo mkdir eclipse && cd eclipse
sudo tar -pxvzf /path_to_tar/eclipse.tar.gz

Then you should create symlink in /usr/local/bin/ to execute eclipse. Create a file named eclipse in /usr/local/bin/, fill it with this:

#!/bin/sh

ECLIPSE=/usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse
if [ ! -d ~/.eclipse/ ] ; then
    $ECLIPSE -clean -initialize || exit $?
fi

exec $ECLIPSE "$@"

Give execute permission to this file:

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/eclipse

Now you should be able to run eclipse from terminal using eclipse command:

eclipse

How to take the executable file of the particular software and install in other system?

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