Install?

[Willis]

anthony baldwin wrote:
> Willis wrote:
>   
>> I have downloaded a bible program and a game I wish to install.  Both 
>> are Ubuntu compatible and both have been extracted from the .tar and 
>> placed in my home directory.  In the Terminal, when I tried to install 
>> the KJV Bible I received th message to type install --help and below is 
>> the message I received.  It's interesting but It's Greek to me also.
>>
>> can anyone help a windows freak transition?
>>   
>>     
> for Bible software, in terminal do
> sudo apt-get update
> then do
> sudo apt-get install bibletime
> and/or do
> sudo apt-get install gnome-sword
>
> More info on the programs:
> gnome-sword: http://gnomesword.sourceforge.net/
> Bible time: http://www.bibletime.info/
>
> Alternatively, open the program, synaptic, or the program, adept,
> and find either bibletime or gnome-sword (or both) and mark for install.
>
> I would need to know more about what's happening with your tarball
> excursion to have a clue.
> Are they gzipped tarballs (filename.tar.gz)?
> Did you extract them from both tar and gz?
> Did they have an install script?
> Perhaps you need to do make before install.
> I would recommend you use apt, (or synaptic or adept) and install
> the Bible software mentioned above from the .debs in our repos.
> Much easier.
>
> good luck,
> tony
>
>   
Thanks Tony.  I have the Gnome Bible and it is not satisfactory at all 
for serious work and when I apt-get the Bibletime the Adept Manager 
reports it is unable to find it.

As for the ter balls I have unzipped them to files and found nothing to 
install them with and I just put them into a directory to wait for an 
answer.