I am new to openSuse, and would love to install Ulauncher on Leap. I have downloaded the tar.gz file and extracted it to the Downloads folder., but I don’t know how to go from here.
I have no idea about Ulauncher, but in general there should be a file README (or readme, or similar) that should give you some instructions.
And to give people an idea about what you got you could post here the contents of the extracted directory:
ls -l /path/to/the/directory
Thank you for your quick feedback.
Unfortunately, there is no info about installation in the README file, it only tells you how to get Ulauncher to run at start-up.
Here is what there is in the download:
total 64
-rw-r--r-- 1 ngungu users 64 Nov 13 01:18 AUTHORS
drwxr-xr-x 1 ngungu users 50 Feb 11 11:14 bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 ngungu users 88 Feb 11 11:14 data
-rw-r--r-- 1 ngungu users 32885 Nov 13 01:18 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 ngungu users 3348 Nov 13 01:18 README.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 ngungu users 1056 Nov 13 01:18 setup.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ngungu users 7724 Nov 13 01:19 setup.py
drwxr-xr-x 1 ngungu users 108 Feb 11 14:05 ulauncher
-rwxr--r-- 1 ngungu users 261 Feb 11 14:05 ulauncher.desktop.in
-rw-r--r-- 1 ngungu users 241 Nov 13 01:18 ulauncher.service
It looks to me as if all is ready to be placed in the correct directories. Like ulauncher.service should most probably go to /etc/systemd/system/ . And the ExecStart= parameter in it could tell about at least of one executable where it is expected to go.
May be contents of the other directories like bin, data and ulauncher do tell more where things has to go
The only directories are subdirectories of the Ulauncher directory, which itself is in ~/Downloads.
So, how should I proceed from here?
Run
./setup.py --help-commands
which should show options setup script supports. Google for setup.py and how to use it.
I am completely confused by all that I have read. From what I gather the app will have to be built and made in a way that leaves me baffled.
For any people in the future looking to install Ulauncher without wanting to go through the build process, here is a simple way.
BTW, the webpage linked toalso shows how to install on Tumbleweed and Slowroll.
Well, I guess people thought, at least I did, that you already searched for the product and could not find it in an openSUSE repo. Else why should you try a more primitive sort of download and install?
I had not looked in this repository because I did not even know it existed. Furthermore, had I come across its home page I would not even have guessed it was a software repository — did I say I am ignorant about most of Linux? 
BTW, off topic, but I just want to say that for the past few days I have been setting up openSuse on my laptop and installing apps and I must say I am pretty impressed. 5 years ago I tried it in a VM on a Windows host and could not get it to work properly, I was put off and left with an impression that it was a distro for advanced users only. How wrong I was !!
It is part of the communication problem that belongs to such a forum as this. People have no idea about what other people did or the knowledge and experience they have. One depends completely on the information given in a post and unavoidable fills in the gaps, probably wrong ;).
In this case, you should have told what you did in searching for the software, where you found it and thus what you downloaded.
OTOH, the first answer in this thread should have been: where did you get it from? But sometime asking for the most obvious information is not only tiring, but also may look padantic, etc.
The world is full of miscommunication.
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Just for the record:
Installing ULauncher on Leap borked my openSuse. It did not bother me too much because I was considering switching to Tumbleweed anyway, so this was a good excuse.
I have not installed Ulauncher on Tumbleweed; in fact, I only try to install flatpaks from Discover, or AppImages.
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