<blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">i have been reading the ubuntu unleashed 2008, and anyway i dont know how to install a software different from synaptic and sudo apt-get: it is imposible to find the way to know how to compile the external aplications to ubuntu. lets get a discution about this please! the file im tryng to compile is a file called Open Music from Ircam: it is found in <a href="http://sourceforge.net.org/" target="_blank">sourceforge.net.org</a> since the people whe write this ubuntu tutorials didnt know how to explain the peoplle how to use the software and take advantage of linux i think the great task is yours, becouse im one of millions who hate mac of windows but are not an absurd geek. </blockquote><div> when you download the tar.gz file from sourceForge you need to read the file README-linux, it contains all the instructions you need, but they are rather terse. I Think I'll give it a try and see how I manage..... </div>