* Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> [06-10-21 23:00]:
On 6/11/21 10:46 AM, Douglas McGarrett wrote:
ConvertAll is a very handy unit converter which will turn mm to inches, light years to miles. and just about anything in between. Zypper can't find it. I have downloaded a .tar.gz file. I have unzipped the tar.gz. file, but zypper can't seem to deal with that either. What must I do to install it?
zypper won't understand tar.gz files, depending on the contents of the tar.gz file there are either 2 things you can do, in some cases the tar.gz file will contain binaries (or scripts that are ready to run), in which case you can either extract it to /opt/convertall or your home directory and either adjust your path or symlink them into /usr/bin
In the other case it will contain source code and you'll need to follow the provided instructions to build and install the code.
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