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?

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    3 years ago

    It can either be precompiled executables or the source code. What you do depends on which one it is.