Request for simplified instructions for downloading and installing .tar.gz applications - Ventoy

[Bret Busby]

Hello.

Whilst I have been using Linux, of various distributions, for a couple 
of decades, I use the operating system package managers for installing 
packaged software, and, since Netscape upgrades messed up my systems, 
going down several layers of directory hierarchies, to deal with .tar.gz 
file installations, I refused to have anything more top do with .tar.gz 
software installations, and so, am unfamiliar with the process of 
dealing with applications that are only available as .tar.gz files.

Now, this ventoy thing has appeared (and, has previously been 
discussed), and, it is not available as a .deb package for installation 
(and updating) through operating system package management.

On the ventoy web site, from what I have seen, the instructions are 
something like
1. Download the .tar.gz file
2. Decompress the .tar.gz file
3. Run the resultant .sh file

But, to do this on a Ubuntu system, using the Ubuntu filesystem 
hierarchy, which pathways should be used?

I assume that a person should not just download the .tar.gz file to the 
home directory, and, decompress whatever gets squeezed out of it, into 
the home directory.

So, I am asking for a simplified, step by step, instruction set, for 
simple people like me, to be able to download and install, a tar.gz file 
based application, like ventoy, that is applicable to the Ubuntu 
operating system / file system; for example, something like

1. Create a directory /applications/ventoy .
2. Download the ventoy .tar.gz file to the /applications/ventoy directory.
3. Run <decompression utility> to decompress the file into a (new?) 
directory, /applications/ventoy/usable_application .
4. To run the program, enter
sh /applications/ventoy/usable_application/Ventoy2Disk.sh

On the ventoy web page, is
"Download the installation package, like ventoy-x.x.xx-linux.tar.gz and 
decompress it."

But, should this be done, to a particular location, eg, /bin, or, /usr, 
or, something similar?

As I have said, I ask for simplified, step by step,  instructions, for 
simple people like me.

Thank you in anticipation.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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