Where can I find Software for Unix/Linux that does X?
I’m looking for a program that does X and runs on unix (or at least on my particular unix system). Where can I look? Is there a more efficient way than a generic web search?
software-installation
Where should I copy-paste-install software to?
I’m installing IntelliJ, and the readme tells me to choose an installation folder. Where is a good, standard place to put installed programs?
Handbrake for wheezy?
Has anyone figured out how to install/backport a Debian Handbrake package on Debian wheezy? The only version of Handbrake currently in Debian is in experimental, and the dependencies are not available on wheezy, so I can’t easily rebuild it. In particular the version of libav used is the version in experimental.
What’s the advantage of mere Ansible on mere shell-scripting if one doesn’t use communally-maintained Ansible-Galaxy roles?
“not sure I understand idempotent well enough to understand the answer”.
Install Compiler, GCC, in SCO
I am having difficulty trying to install the GCC compiler in SCO, but can’t get it to work.
Where should an application be installed if it consists of multiple files?
I have noticed that essentially all the files in /usr/bin are stand-alone executables, rather than a directory containing the executable plus other files that the executable might need (such as configuration files, data files, etc.)
Install Java 6 from Oracle to Debian Lenny
Since Java 6 is not available in Debian 5 I decided to take it from Oracle. I have downloaded Java 6 SDK in file jdk-6u45-linux-i586-rpm.bin. But how to install it?
Into which directory should I install programs in Linux?
I want to install a program in Linux and run it as a daemon. (Team Speak 3 in this case, but the question is general in nature). There is no package provided, only tarred binaries.
Installing a .deb package in home directory
Is it possible to install a .deb package completely under my home directory at debian?
install latest gcc on rhel 6 x86_64
I have an RHEL 6 server with gcc version 4.4.7. I wanted to update the gcc version (I think the current one is 4.8). Yum update doesn’t work. Also, SO answers for a similar question on CentOS does not work. I followed the methods in the accepted answer, the output is “Error getting repository data for testing-1.1-devtools-6, repository not found”. Also I am not sure whether I should follow the methods for CentOs.