EASY step by step guide to installing on Linux?

Submitted by ws1984 on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 21:00
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Soulseek General Discussion

Every guide I find on this is not easy enough for a Windows user to understand. I'm new to Linux and understand very little of it. I like it so far but figuring out how to do some things is difficult. I have no clue how to install Soulseek on Mint. I downloaded the 64 bit version but I have no idea what to do with this file. This isn't Windows so you don't just click on it. Is there a step by step cookbook for Soulseek for people migrating from a different OS? I've managed to figure some Linux things out but only because they were similar to Windows. Installing programs isn't one of them. I'm guessing I have to do things in terminal? I'm ok with that but I don't know the commands. Anyone help this Windows dummy?

Submitted by Nir on Fri, 02/15/2013 - 14:26.

The Linux release is just an archive that contains one executable file. You can run this executable from anywhere as long as the Qt library is installed on your Linux system.

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Submitted by Noidance on Wed, 02/20/2013 - 07:00.

Hi,

I have a similar problem. I have Bhodi Linux installed and I have no idea how to install soulseek. it downloads instantly but then there is just this file and i have no idea how to make it install something ...

anyone know how to do this?

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Submitted by thescarletfire on Sun, 02/24/2013 - 08:50.

I think Bodhi is Debian-based, or Ubuntu, right? It uses APT I think. So just download the file from the Soulseek website and run it, that's all there is to it :)