Some projects only give you .tar.gz, what am I supposed to do with them? Is this what people call building from source? Am I supposed to move it to /opt and extract it in Debian based distros? Does this also work on Arch based ones?
Some projects only give you .tar.gz, what am I supposed to do with them? Is this what people call building from source? Am I supposed to move it to /opt and extract it in Debian based distros? Does this also work on Arch based ones?
It is not necessarily building from source. It’s a compressed tarball, that’s all.
Well, I meant when you download it from a project’s repo, which is pretty much always the code.
Sure, if that’s where it’s from, that makes sense that’s what it would be.
If they don’t provide build instructions, you may be on your own.