On 28 August 2011 17:46, John Levin <technola...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all, > > I've installed zotero standalone 3.0beta1 on Ubuntu, from a tar.gz package. > (http://www.zotero.org/**support/3.0 <http://www.zotero.org/support/3.0>) > Everything works, and I've added a menu entry. But as it stands, it's > installed localy, for me only, and not for all users on the system. This > doesn't really bother me, in that I'm the only user of this laptop, bt out > of interest, is there any way of installing tar.gz packages system wide? > > (I'm on ubuntu 10.10, btw) > > A tar.gz is an archive rather than a package. Traditionally you could uncompress the package in /usr/local or /opt as root, which would make it available to all users.
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