How to Install downloaded package?

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It looks like it manual installer that installs to /opt/ibm/iAccessClientSolutions

I assume that file comes bundled with a bunch of other files? I didn't read the whole thing in detail but nothing jumped out at me where it was extracting or downloading those files.

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Oh yeah it's an entire installation package.

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Look at the one on AUR that was linked, it very well could be a viable version as this software is not updated very often at all from IBM. How do I install it from AUR?

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The installation could likely fail due to that old date.
If you want to give it a try
paru iacs-git
Review the pkgbuild scrolling and press q to proceed

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Please, if you include terminal /script outputs in your post, please use the proper output format in your post. Using "~" 3 times above and "~" 3 times below the text block will provide a readable, raw look.

and
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@LegacyCore, please pay attention. If you want to become versed at Arch-based package management, you'll have to forget Debian-based package management.

Between Arch and the AUR, they contain what, 50,000-70,000 packages? It is a rarity if the package you want is not in the AUR if not in the mainline repositories.

You didn't learn Debian-based package management in a heartbeat. Don't expect Arch to be any different. It is not Debian.

These are two things you absolutely need to learn, or at least study and bookmark. The first is the Pacman Rosetta, where you can learn and compare Pacman commands vs. Dbpkg, vs RPM, etc.

The second link is to the AUR. where you can learn how to install packages the correct way with makepkg, without any AUR helpers such as yay or paru.

Study these guides or return to Debian, your choice, If you want to learn.

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Hi @LegacyCore!
While installing any package in Garuda, note these:

  1. Use the default package manager (Pamac/Octopi/etc. whichever provided by your Garuda Linux's edition) to search and to install. Remember, upper case and lower case letters are different, so better to try searching with both, like "iaccess", "iAccess", "IBM iAccess", etc., if one doesn't give the result.
  2. If the app is not found, then it is not present both in Arch repos and AUR (better to search manually on these sites again to make sure).
  3. Then if the only way left is to install by downloading from external website, like you downloaded this app, the file should be a tar archive containing .tar.zst or such. Then it is installable with the package manager.
  4. If even such a file a file is not provided, but a script or different type of files are provided, then you need to create a PKGBUILD manually (which should look like this example PKGBUILD file), with which the installable file could be made and also installed directly in various ways like yay -Ui(from the same folder).

Yesterday I learnt to create my own PKGBUILD, so am excited to do more :smiley:
If you provide the link for what you downloaded, I'm happy to create one for you!

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Thanks for all the responses everybody, I would of responded last night but I ran out of posts for the day since I'm new. I 100% intend on learning the ins and outs of this distro, and honestly have learned a ton already in the last 36 hours of using it. I'm loving Garuda, so much in fact that I bought a 2011 iMac off Facebook Market on the cheap just to use it for Garuda at home for personal use. As this laptop I'm not now is for work purposes.

Thanks to everybody so far who have helped, I can tell this community is very friendly, and fast to respond with good help. I look forward to digging deep into Garuda and make a 100% transition to it for everyday life and work.

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