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I downloaded text editors (komodo, eclipse, sublime text, and medit). I opened the dash home but, they are in tar.gz format and are opening in archive managers as folders. How do I open them?

Thank you.

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  • You need to install them. In this post you will find a great post with plenty documentation: askubuntu.com/q/25961/62483
    – Lucio
    Dec 22, 2013 at 3:44
  • Medit is available from the Software Center. No need to download a tar.gz for medit.
    – user25656
    Dec 22, 2013 at 4:13
  • Priority for installing software: distribution packages -> package repositories maintained by original application developers -> compiling from source
    – LiveWireBT
    Dec 23, 2013 at 8:29

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You will find a README or a INSTALL file in these folders with instructions on how to install. Most likely, they are 1. ./configure 2. make 3. make install . The easier option is to execute sudo apt-get install vim in the terminal.

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Can you use aptitude? Open up a terminal and type:

 sudo apt-get install eclipse

The .tar.gz files are source code. If you extract them, they will contain installation instructions.

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  • He wants an editor not an IDE.
    – Jay
    Dec 22, 2013 at 3:48
  • @Jay He said he wanted to install Eclipse... Is there an editor called Eclipse?
    – dejay
    Dec 22, 2013 at 3:54
  • sorry for not specifying but eclipse is an IDE. Thanks for your help though.
    – Sam
    Dec 22, 2013 at 4:54

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