Hi all :-(
I know it is off topic but I do not know where to turn...
trying to download a spanish learning video using DownloadHelper...
years ago was easy now I am told it need
a companion app which I have downloaded:
net.downloadhelper.coapp-1.5.0-1_amd64.tar.gz
but do not know what to do with it...
I do not think the Downloads directory is
the right place still I extracted it there
as i do not know where is the right place...
I get:
Downloads/net.downloadhelper.coapp-1.5.0
Of course it does not work...When I try to download the video
I again get the message that I need a companion app...
I do not know what to do...any help or suddestion of another
downloader which works with Mageia7.1 will be appreciated...
TIA
Santo
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 08:06:07 +0000 (UTC), santo wrote:
Hi all :-(
Generally speaking, you unpack/extract the archive somewhere,
do whatever required to create an executable, then place the executable
in a directory that is in your $PATH.
It depends on how the archive is set up.
I usually unpack/extract in ~/tmp then move/install executable into /usr/local/bin.
For examples, slrn and schily's cdrtools.
$ type slrn
slrn is /usr/local/bin/slrn
$ dir /usr/local/bin/slrn
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 373K Dec 20 2019 /usr/local/bin/slrn
My suggestion would be to click on the
Extra step required to complete install
link and follow the instructions.
whereas
$ type cdrecord
cdrecord is /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
$ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
On 5/7/20 6:42 pm, Bit Twister wrote:
=20
=20=20
whereas
$ type cdrecord
cdrecord is /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
$ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord =20
=20
[faeychild@unimatrix ~]$ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
dir: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/cdrecord': No such file or
directory
=20
[faeychild@unimatrix ~]$ type cdrecord
cdrecord is /usr/bin/cdrecord
=20
have you moved yours around at some time, Bits ?
On 05.07.2020 at 23:03, faeychild scribbled:
On 5/7/20 6:42 pm, Bit Twister wrote:
whereas
$ type cdrecord
cdrecord is /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
$ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
[faeychild@unimatrix ~]$ dir /usr/local/bin/cdrecord
dir: cannot access '/usr/local/bin/cdrecord': No such file or
directory
[faeychild@unimatrix ~]$ type cdrecord
cdrecord is /usr/bin/cdrecord
have you moved yours around at some time, Bits ?
Educated guess: Yours is the cdrecord that comes installed in Mageia by default and is part of the cdrkit (formerly Wodim) package, whereas Bit Twister's is the cdrecord that comes as part of the original cdrtools
package by Jörg Schilling, which Bit Twister built from source code,
because that is how Schilling distributes it.
Software built from sources locally on the system is normally placed
under /usr/local. Software distributed in binary form but installed
outside of the scope of the package manager is generally installed in
/opt. Software that comes as part of the system itself and/or that is installed using the system's package manager goes under /usr.
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