install from .tar.gz

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I am running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 64-bit. I know there are a lot of topics on ".tar.gz" but it didn't answer my questions and/or I didn't undetstand the answers.

I am trying to install from a .tar.gz file and I am having difficulties. The file is from http://popcorn-time.se/ I download it to my home directory and extract it to mentioned directory, there are 3 files in the folder and I don't know what to do with these (usually there is a readme file). Double-clicking them doesn't do anything.

What to do? I would to prefer to solve this within the GUI and avoid the terminal, if possible.

As requested by Xen2050; these is the content of the .tar file:

@fz-System-Product-Name:~/Popcorn-Time-linux64$ ls -la
total 103176

drwxrwxr-x  2 fz fz     4096 jan 22 12:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 33 fz fz     4096 jan 22 12:42 ..
-rwxrwxrwx  1 fz fz  2395800 apr 28  2014 libffmpegsumo.so
-rwxrwxrwx  1 fz fz  4031601 apr 28  2014 nw.pak
-rwxrwxrwx  1 fz fz 99207331 apr 28  2014 Popcorn-Time

Xen2050 · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-22T15:57:34.273

Usually those types of files are just "extract and run", but if it's not a GUI program, you may have to use a terminal and see what the files are, maybe run them there.

And it's almost always preferable to install programs from a default repository, or a PPA, if it's available there. apt-get or aptitude or synaptic are excellent ways to install programs available from the repositories.

But, for this .tar.gz, it may only run in a terminal, or may be giving an error message that double-clicking on it isn't revealing.

open a terminal
cd to the extracted files
type ls -la and paste the results into your Q, we're looking for which one is executable (has an x in the permissions)

After seeing the files, all those files are executable apparently, that's a little different. Can try executing the Popcorn-Time one with ./Popcorn-Time (have to type a ./ first, or the shell looks in your path for a filename to run, ignoring the current dir).

I did a web search and found some promising hits:

http://lintut.com/run-popcorn-time-on-linux/ - Has info about your error from the comments, this might be your fix:

If you see Error missing libudev.so.0 enter following command in terminal:
```
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.0
```
Install Popcorn Time In Ubuntu Or Debian Via PPA Repository - If the above link didn't work, you could do this. In a terminal, run:
```
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/popcorntime
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install popcorn-time
```

install from .tar.gz

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