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The installation guide is at the same place where you downloaded the application:
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/#Foxit-Reader/
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06-10-2019, 10:25 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-10-2019, 10:26 AM by ejc.)
I found that! But this is Chinese to me!
• Change to the directory containing the downloaded
file (used /tmp as the example):
# cd /tmp
• Uncompress the executable
# gzip -d 'FoxitReader_version_Setup.run.tar.gz'
• Untar the .tar file:
# tar xvf 'FoxitReader_version_Setup.run.tar'
• Run the installer:
# ./'FoxitReader_version_Setup.run'
• Follow the steps on the screen to complete the
installation
What does the first step means? I see the folder in my download folder, what should I do? copy it? cut it and paste it into my "home folder" or the desktop?
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Right click on the file you downloaded and extract it to a folder. Then Right click on a blank space within that folder and select the option to open a terminal in that location. Then copy and paste the following and hit enter.
Code:
./'FoxitReader_version_Setup.run
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Thanks! Indeed that was so simple!
My mistake was the following, when I had right-clicked the first time, I simply followed the first choice "open with archive manager"
and it didn't give me an installation file.
So the correct choice was "extract here" or "extract to".
A paragraph on .gz and .deb installs in the Linux lite guide would help.
