GIP 2.95 reports as v2.83 in Linux Mint!!!

[Alan Milewczyk]

On 04/07/16 23:36, Roger Bell_West wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 07:31:09PM +0100, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
>> On 04/07/16 19:15, Roger Bell_West wrote:
>>> You asked the system to uninstall the package, but not to purge its
>>> configuration files.
>> Oh, so what is the command to do that, please?
> apt-get purge, or aptitude purge.
>
>
Ok thanks, done that and it seems to have uninstalled the application 
and purged the config files (although v2.83 still seems to live 
somewhere in the system as "get-iplayer" when I do a "sudo apt-get 
install get-iplayer", heaven only knows where).

However, ignoring that, I'm now trying, without success to install from 
the tar.gz file and from the extracted tar.gz ( sudo apt-get install 
from the relevant folder....), I'm getting a "cannot find package" error 
message (I presume it needs a deb file to work). I've looked up on the 
net how to install from a tar.gz and tried a few differing options 
without success - indeed there is comment on a number of websites that 
this is not for beginners and what seems to work for one program doesn't 
work for another. I must admit as a Linux noob this is like pulling 
teeth! :-(

So, after going round in circles, please can someone tell what is the 
definitive way of installing this tar.gz?

Thanks

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