Linux. My software manager has stopped working. Any solutions? stopped?

Question

I'm trying to install the Cheese photo software via the download manager but nothing is happening, I've tried other softwares to see if it's just the Cheese that won't download but nothing is downloading.
I don't want to reinstall Linux so has anyone got the terminal commands for this software? I've tied to install it via the .tar package but I don't understand how to install from the extracted files. Thanks.

Answer 1

check your internet connection..

might be stopping during download.

internet sometines "time-out"

try to go to "synaptic package manager"

it is better to get file there.

system>administration>synaptic package manager.

search cheese on search box, then right click to mark for installation.

click apply button.

it should work then ..



after download. go to applications>sound and video> cheese

Answer 2

Does it give any error message?

The terminal command to install packages will depend on which linux distro you are using.

You might have another application that is using the software manager. That will cause the software manager to be "locked" so that no conflicts will occur.

If you have been using the software manager to install software and now install a package via a tarball that is also available in the software manager it could cause problems in the future because the software manager will not know about the files that you install with the tarball and that could cause problems when you want to install some related package because of that confusion.

Try a reboot and try to install Cheese again.

Good luck

Answer 3

You don't say what Linux distribution you are using, so any commands are guesswork...



If the download manager you are using is YUM , in a terminal window enter

yum clean all



which will erase all partial downloads & clean the caches.



If it's an RPM based system, try

rpm -qa | grep Cheese



That will show if Cheese in installed, if so try removing it with



rpm -e Cheese





To install from a source .tar, typically you cd to a suitable directory to build packages (eg. /usr/src)

untar the file into there, cd in to the directory the package created, then enter

./configure

make

make install



Most source packages have README or INSTALL files, or some recognisable set up instructions on how to build & install the package, together with any dependencies that need installing first.

Answer 4

I don;t know what version of linux you are using so a few things



debian/ubuntu/mint synaptic based distros try apt-get install cheese this will usually suggest something to do, sometimes if you have a partial install from before it advises a dpkg command to complete the previous install. It could also be a lock thats not cleared and it will say something like could not get lock on /etc/apt/lock, you can get round that by doing rm /etc/apt/lock or whatever it tells you, theres a few lock files that prevent multiple installers running.



For fedora based distros try yum install cheese and see what it says.



arch would be pacman, gentoo is portage, mandriva I think uses yum or urpmi

Answer 5

what distro do you use? there are different kinds of package managers used by different distros.



What files are in the extracted .tar? I'll tell you what you need to do to install from that once I see the files it gives you to work with;

Answer 6

Google is your friend, just search for:



install software from tarball



And, here's just ONE example: