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Artix Linux => Applications & Software => Topic started by: AlekosGK on 31 August 2021, 16:35:23

Title: How to install tar.gz file ?
Post by: AlekosGK on 31 August 2021, 16:35:23
I cant install discord from pacman on the latest STABLE runit release and I am trying to install it from the discord site.

Thanks
Title: Re: How to install tar.gz file ?
Post by: strajder on 31 August 2021, 17:18:11
This might come in handy:

https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-Building-HOWTO.html
https://tldp.org/HOWTO/pdf/Software-Building-HOWTO.pdf

TLDP (https://tldp.org) is a great traditional source of information on GNU/Linux.

Note 1: Under Artix (which is an Arch-based system), it is recommended to use pacman. However, the command
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$ pacman -Ss discord | less
(more on pacman here (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman)) reveals that Discord package is in the community repository, which is an Arch repository (https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories). Arch repositories in Artix are only supported through a specific procedure (https://artixlinux.org/news.php#Arch_repositories_made_optional). Even then, if it relies on systemd, it naturally won't work on a distro which is created specifically to avoid systemd.

Note 2: Take into consideration that Discord is an anti-privacy program (https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/discord.html). It is spying on its users.

Note 3: Even more packages are revealed in AUR (which is not officially supported, neither by Arch nor Artix), by using an AUR helper (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers) like yay or pikaur.

Note 4: All of this can be found through web search. Next time go through this checklist: https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,1923.0.html
Title: Re: How to install tar.gz file ?
Post by: camosoul on 16 September 2021, 10:52:41
I cant install discord from pacman on the latest STABLE runit release and I am trying to install it from the discord site.

Thanks
Runit is unrelated to your issues.

See my reply here: https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,2983.msg19766.html#msg19766

Note: Discord hates you and is spying on you. They're creepy and cannot be trusted.