HELP - Third Party Apps

[Bill Wright]

Andrew Kane wrote:
> Hi!
> I think we will need more information in order to be able to help:
>
> Is the app a binary package or a source-code package?
> What is its name?
> Have you read the README file?
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Bill Wright <pegasus at sc.rr.com> wrote:
>   
>> I am running 8.04.2 LTS Desktop.
>> I want to install a app compressed with TAR.
>> I was successful in opening the file ....from there, I am at a loss.
>> What CMDS do I enter in the terminal program to install the program.
>>
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> The name of the application is Moneydance, it's supposed to be similar to Quicken which is an app I use everyday.
>   
I do not believe the file is Binary. The readme states to extract the 
contents of moneydance_linux_x86.tar.gz and run moneydance in the same 
directory as the downloaded file and run the file from the command line.