Help me installing a software that is not in repo, aur, flatpak, snap

@Mahafuj Sorry, I don’t know. I downloaded the .tar.gz archive and it fails to extract in my computer for some reason.

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Were you able to extract it? If so, can you run the command ls in a terminal in the directory, and post the output?
(ls lists all the file in the directory)

yes, I use: tar -xvf command. But I could not directly extract from gui.

And i do really appreciate your helping. You have download the package for me and trying to install it. I could not ask for more. Thank you. I just don’t want to change the distro, but I need that software badly.

There may be an executable binary inside bin.
Also, you henceforth please copy-paste the terminal output instead of posting screenshots.

Open a terminal inside this bin folder, and run ./glade.

If that does not work, try ./MetaPl-Capo9.4-Lnx64.exe inside bin.

If even that does not work, contact the support channel of this software and ask how to run it.

I can see a file named MetaPl-Capo9.4-Lnx64.exe (blue icon) in the screenshot you posted. Maybe drag it into the terminal and press enter?

Sorry, I don’t think I can help any further with this. Please contact the support channel of this software, and mention the steps you followed.

Well, thank you for your efforts :slight_smile:

It is a very strangely packed file - it is a .tar.gz which has been gzipped again
I unpacked it with
gunzip glade5_linux64_ub20.tar.gz
and then with:
tar xzf glade5_linux64_ub20.tar

Then I did set up the environment like instructed:
export GLADE_HOME=/home/me/build/glade5_linux64_ub20
export PATH=$GLADE_HOME/bin:$PATH

and could start glade
but it failed with:
glade: error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.66: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It seems it is very specifically built for that version of Ubuntu which has this libicui18n.so.66
I haven’t got much hope that you can make this work here.

It would be possible if it could be built from source, but I don’t think they provide that.

wow! you start glade but failed. What command you typed to start glade??

glade

this works once you added and exported the PATH to include the bin directory that program is in
like in the readme and like I wrote above …

So you add those line at the end of bashrc ?

no, I didn’t
This was only temporary - only for this terminal - just to test it.
To make it permanent, you’d add it to ~/.bashrc

Just tested it out of curiosity.
It works in the current Linux Mint.
Of course in Ubuntu as well.
The probably easiest way is to spin up a Mint or Ubuntu VM with Gnome Boxes
or with Virtualbox (which is a bit more involved)
and use the program that way.

is running it in a VM a possibility?