Thread: Command line Installation

It is possible to download, unpack and install from the command line itself. The command to download a software is wget followed by the URL of the package. To download and install Tux Racer, for example. type:
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge . net/tuxracer / tuxracer-0.61.tar.gz?modtime=980899200&big_mirror=0
Once the download is complete. press [Enter] again. Now type: $ tar xvf tuxracer- 0 . 61. tar. gz, and continue installing with the . / configure, make, and make install commands. To install from an RPM package. type:
$ rpm -ivh packagename.rpm
for a debian package, type:
$ dpkg -i packagename.deb


The command line appear as follows:
Preparing ... ############################## [100%] lackagename############################# [100%] This means that the package has been installed properly. Another easy way to install is to use the apt-get command for
debian-based distributions. In the command line. type: $ sudo apt-get install packagename
SQ, for example, if you want to install a game called pingus.
type:



$ sudo apt-get install pingus The response should appear as follows:
Reading package lists ... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information ... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libboost-signals1.34.1 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 pingus¬data The following NEW packages will be installed: libboost-signals1.34.1 libsdl-image1.2 libsdl¬mixer1.2 pingus pingus-data 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 212 not upgraded. Need to get 12.4MB of archives. After this operation, 23.9MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/N]?

Notice that the dependencies are being resolved in the com¬mand line. Type in Y and press [Enter]. The command line will show a list of packages and how much time is left.
7% [4 pingus-data 763299/11.3MB 6%]
43.6kB/s 4min21s
Assuming you have yum installed, the apt-get equivalent for SuSE is
$ yum install packagename. If you do not, then please install it as handling the dependencies will be troublesome otherwise.
To make sure that the apt-get command is working at all . times. make sure that the repositories on the system are always updated. To do this, in the command line type:
$ sudo apt-get update
Note: If the programs don't appear in the menu after installa¬tion for any of the other methods. the programs will be located in one of the two bin folders on your file system. This is either {usrfbin. or {usr{localfbin.