Help - Third Party app installation

[Jan Litwiński]

Bill Wright <wwright2 at sc.rr.com> writes:

> I am running 8.04 LTS desktop
>
> I downloaded a linux application that will run with Ubuntu o/s
> I have uncompressed the TAR application. From that point I am at a loss 
> as how to install the program.
>
> I know it has to installed through the terminal command line.
> I don't know what to enter.
>
> Any help is appreciated
read this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingSoftware

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