Coreper Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 ive been wondering for a while now, if it would be possible to install Linux programs on a Windows machinei known there are several programs which use a GTK runtime-enviroment to run > they are originally Linux programsthough i do not exactly know how this works...could someone tell me?and then i have another related question:how do you install .tar.gz files [or other weird formats like: .tar.bz2] ?please helpthanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 http://librenix.com/?inode=634http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/tarball.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreper Posted February 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 you need linux to do this [or i dont understand it right...]is there a program available to install those .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 files?please helpthanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 you need linux to do this [or i dont understand it right...]is there a program available to install those .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 files?please helpthanksYes. it's called Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreper Posted February 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 that isnt what i meant...is there a way to install Linux files on a Windows computer, without installing Linux, or a mayor piece of software which increadible slows down your computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 As far as I know apart from emulation , this program should run Linux programs in Windows.http://www.colinux.org/As far as automating tarball installation, I do not think there is such a program, although i stand to be corrected on this, my previous link explains how to unpack and install tarballs.Just out of interest, you are using GIMP is that the Windows version or are you dual booting?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreper Posted February 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 oh, well, i'll give up on this...but maybe there is another way for what i want this for:is there a freeware program which allows you to edit, analyze, create, etc. your disk partitions? [like GParted {which is a Linux program}] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaman Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/pa...oneditors.shtml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason.b.c Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Well Coreper , It seem's as though you didn't get the help you wanted here from others...Try this ===> http://cygwin.com/# Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. It consists of two parts: A DLL (cygwin1.dll) which acts as a Linux API emulation layer providing substantial Linux API functionality.# A collection of tools which provide Linux look and feel.It isn't perfect , I still don't know if you can run tarballs or RPM's in a windows system , I think the only way you could do it is to obtain the source code for that program you want and rewrite it and compile it in windows format... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coreper Posted February 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 no they didnt really help methanks for the link to Cygwin, but i think that isnt what im looking for [since i cant install those linux programs...]@Gagaman:i had a search before for freeware disk partitioners, when i ran into all of those tools.they are all useless: one is for linux, another one is a dos commander, and another one is a cd!i just want a tool which is as easy to use as the Norton Partition Magic, but then in a freeware version... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Something I don't understand about this thread is why anyone would want to amalgamate Linux programs into a Windows environment.It is possible to have windows and Linux on a single machine or to have Linux loading from CD and, as Linux is very low cost or even free, I don't see why it has to be cluttered up with a Windows O/S.Have I missed the point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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