Installing Light Table and such apps from tar.gz

[hs.das]

Light Table is not available in Software Store so i downloaded lighttable-0.8.1-linux.tar.gz from http://lighttable.com/. I searched in the internet for instructions on how to install packages from tar.gz. I am listing them below

1. Use INSTALL file : I found no install file.

2. Use README for instructions : No README file either.

3. SH file : gives error.

4. MAKE : .\configure is giving error.

So i am out of my wit and asking for help to install Light Table (and for the matter any other such tar.gz installations). Thanks in advance.

[Storm]

I don't think there's something to install. No indication of that. But there's an execution file in there you can execute.

[Aravisian]

extract the file:

tar xvzf ~/Downloads/*.tar.gz -C /tmp/

Give permissions:

sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/lighttable*

Place executable file in root /opt:

sudo mv /tmp/lighttable* /opt/lightTable

Create symlink:

sudo ln -s /opt/lightTable/LightTable /usr/local/bin/lightTable

Launch with terminal or with alt+F2

lightTable

Or from app menu if you create a desktop file for it.

[hs.das]

Yes there is an executable file and an sh file. The executable file is not working in the current scenario and the sh file while executing gives error

"LightTable: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

[hs.das]

Thank you for the answer, but it still gives the same error as provided with bash

"LightTable: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Any idea how to resolve this error?

[Aravisian]

You can try

sudo apt install libgconf-2-4

[hs.das]

Thanks. Now new error :

(LightTable:2901): Pango-ERROR **: 20:06:19.180: Harfbuzz version too old (1.0.0)

[Aravisian]

@hs.das

Thanks. Now new error :

You can expect this, since Light Table seems to be nominally available...
You can try these suggestions:

Pango-ERROR Harfbuzz version too old

[hs.das]

Thanks. Looks like too many issues are going to creep up. Still will give it a try.