Desktop Installs

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 22:35 -0400, Tom wrote:
> I cannot install programs from the desktop environment. I download to
> the desks top and unzip the programs (mostly tar.gz) and it creates a
> folder on the desktop w/ install file in it. I then go to terminal and
> do the sudo apt-get install and the install builds a directory tree then
> gives error message: couldn't find package or file. I was working from
> the tom at tom-desktop$ prompt. What am I not doing right??

You should start with reading the basic help, there are a few things to
learn :) 

For your immediate problem:
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/add-applications/C/index.html

In general: https://help.ubuntu.com/