installing additional software

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Hi,

how do I install additional software in a tar.gz format. Unzipping them and adding it to a directory is easy enough, but I would like to create a shortcut to the executable file?

Where is the best place to unzip them to?

Thank you

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I would suggest you first have a look at:

  1. Concepts - openSUSE

  2. Documentation/Package Management - openSUSE

  3. Compiling software - openSUSE

  4. Additional YaST Package Repositories - openSUSE

After taking some time to read those please consider first searching for a pre-built package on Software.openSUSE.org and after that building / compiling it from the source (tar.gz ; tar.bz). Rarely the archive will containg a pre-compiled binary (executable) but the source code which you need to compile yourself.

Cheers and welcome to openSUSE.

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Thank you will look into those.