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I am slowly wrapping my head around installing and building programs from git. The program I want is https://github.com/raryelcostasouza/pyTranscriber/, for Ubuntu 20.04.

I've tried clone-and-build instructions from https://www.howtogeek.com/428988/how-to-install-software-using-git-on-linux/, getting hung up on the make && make bit with this resulting output:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

I then I tried downloading the pyTranscriber-v1.5-linux-installer.zip file from https://github.com/raryelcostasouza/pyTranscriber/releases/tag/v1.5-stable and then following the instructions on https://ostoday.org/linux/how-to-install-sh-file-in-ubuntu.html – unzipping that folder, placing it in my home directory, and then getting stuck on trying to run the install.sh file. I get this error message:

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/opt/pyTranscriber’: Permission denied
cp: target '/opt/pyTranscriber' is not a directory
chmod: cannot access '/opt/pyTranscriber/*': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/share/applications/pytranscriber.desktop': Permission denied

I's like to a\ install this particular program, and b\ understand the standard way of installing anything from GitHub/GitLab in the future. I've done this before just it's always trial by fire and I finally want to know what it is I'm doing :)

zulu
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For current case you have to download the ZIP-file with installer from releases page and then install it using commands below:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c https://github.com/raryelcostasouza/pyTranscriber/releases/download/v1.5-stable/pyTranscriber-v1.5-linux-installer.zip
unzip pyTranscriber-v1.5-linux-installer.zip
cd pyTranscriber-v1.5-linux-installer
sudo bash install.sh

and then find the pyTranscriber application icon in the dash. Or launch it using /opt/pyTranscriber/pyTranscriber command.

Other way is to download portable version of application and run it with following commands:

cd ~/Downloads
wget -c https://github.com/raryelcostasouza/pyTranscriber/releases/download/v1.5-stable/pyTranscriber-v1.5-linux-portable.zip
unzip pyTranscriber-v1.5-linux-portable.zip
cd pyTranscriber-v1.5-linux-portable/
./pyTranscriber

Notes: by analyzing the contents of above pyTranscriber directories you can see that they do not have any configure and/or Makefile (so ./configure followed by make command will not work), do not have any setup.py (so python setup.py build will not work either). So for this particular case you are downloading special installer packages and not the sources.

N0rbert
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