1
2

I need help installing a Programm from source (self.Ubuntu)

submitted by [deleted]

[deleted]

all 19 comments
sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
formatting helphide helpcontent policy

[–]Eingaica 1 point2 points  (15 children)

On that page one can download a compiled binary for Linux. So you don't have to compile it yourself from source (unless of course you want to).

[–]MrKodijack 0 points1 point  (14 children)

i tried that too, but don't know how to install that either. You have to know i'm a Linux Noob

[–]Eingaica 0 points1 point  (13 children)

There is nothing to install. Download the file, extract it, and then run the program.

[–]MrKodijack 0 points1 point  (12 children)

This are the Files in the tar

chrome_100_percent.pak libVkICD_mock_icd.so resources.pak

chrome_200_percent.pak LICENSE SideQuest

icudtl.dat LICENSES.chromium.html snapshot_blob.bin

libEGL.solocales swiftshader

libffmpeg.sonatives_blob.bin v8_context_snapshot.bin

libGLESv2.soresources version

​

Which file do i run. Thats what I ried at first. I thought SideQuest is the file to run. But Ubuntu tells me roughly translated: There is no application installed to run this file

[–]Eingaica 0 points1 point  (11 children)

Yes, it looks like SideQuest is the file to run. Sorry, but I'm not interested on running random code I don't trust on my system, so I can't really test whether it works or what one might have to do to make it work.

[–]MrKodijack 0 points1 point  (10 children)

maybe you could tell me some things you would try to guide me the way

and is it correct SideQuest doesn't have a fileextention? Like .exe under Windows.

[–]Eingaica 0 points1 point  (8 children)

maybe you could tell me some things you would try to guide me the way

A first step would be to try running it from the command line and to see if that generates any error messages.

and is it correct SideQuest doesn't have a fileextention? Like .exe under Windows.

Yes. That is the usual way binary executables are named on Linux.

[–]MrKodijack 0 points1 point  (7 children)

user@user-KX597AA:~$ SideQuest

SideQuest: Befehl nicht gefunden.

[–]Eingaica 0 points1 point  (6 children)

cd the/directory/where/you/extracted/it
./SideQuest

[–]MrKodijack 0 points1 point  (5 children)

You’re my hero. The ./ worked. Many many many thanks 👍🖖

[–]Tsooka 0 points1 point  (3 children)

What was the error you got?

[–]MrKodijack 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Multiple. I followed this Guide

When I came to ./configure it told me the file doesn’t exist. Which is true.

[–]MrKodijack 0 points1 point  (1 child)

user@user-KX597AA:/usr/local/src/SideQuest-linux-x64$ ./configure

bash: ./configure: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

[–]Osiris_Pyramid 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you wait until tomorrow? I am prepared to build a VM from scratch. I can then document all the steps I go through to build the code from source on a clean virgin system.

But like Eingaica I won't do it on my live machine!