Help Third party app installation

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:30:26 -0500, Bill Wright wrote:

> I am running 8.04 LTS desktop. Being a Windows user for many years I am
> at a loss on how to install non packaged applications. I downloaded the
> TAR file, decompressed it, then I am lost? What must I enter on the
> command line?

It is seldom necessary to install non packaged applications. For almost 
any task there are suitable applications in the repostories.

If you really have to use a application for which you can't find anything 
in the repostories, you will almost always find a Readme and/or Install 
file in the toplevel directory after untaring the file. Read those files, 
they will tell you what to do, there is no general instruction for that, 
it depends on the kind of package, source or binary.

Aart