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Help: cannot install a gz package on Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit

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I am a new Ubuntu user. I'm trying to install a package in a file called VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-Linux-x86.gz. I keep having problems.

The package is in my folder: /home/Downloads/VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-Linux-x86.gz

I tried:

owner@ubuntu:~$ cd ~/Downloads

owner@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-linux-x86.gz

[sudo] password for owner: 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-linux-x86.gz

E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-linux-x86.gz'

I also tried:

owner@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ ./configure

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

I have followed sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall as explained on this wiki page and I am still quite lost in how to install this gz package. This package is needed to remotely control my school computer.

My Kernel is Linux-3.5.0-21 generic (x86-64)

Distribution Ubuntu 12.10

GNU C compiler version 4.7.2

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answered 1 Year ago unsmmoth · Accepted Answer

A gz file is compressed with gzip, so just "un-gzip" a file with gunzip.
For the binary download at realvnc.com, as a regular user:

mkdir -p ~/bin

cd ~/bin

mv ~/Downloads/VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-linux-x86.gz .

gunzip VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-linux-x86.gz

chmod +x VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-linux-x86

Then double-click it from a GUI file manager or start it from the command line:

~/bin/VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-linux-x86

If there was no bin directory to start, then the PATH will get updated when you log out and in again. After this it's just

VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-linux-x86

from any directory. You could rename the file, too, if you like, or make symbolic link:

cd ~/bin

ln -s VNC-Viewer-5.0.3-linux-x86 vncv

Then call it with vncv or whichever name you pick for the symlink.