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Help installing 3D-Desktop

I just downloaded 3ddesktop, but I cannot get it to install. On the site, the FAQ says to do the following.

Code:

tar zxvf 3ddesktop-x.y.z.tar.gz

    ./configure

    make

    make install

Well, when I put that in, it brought up an error message, so the next thing I did was cd to my desktop, and...

Code:

tar zxvf 3ddesktop-0.2.8.tar.gz

and this extracted a file onto my desktop, named 3ddesktop-0.2.8 When I went to type "./configure", it came up with this error message...

Code:

bash: ./config: No such file or directory

so now this is where I am stuck. I am, obviously, very new to Linux. If it helps, I am running the Warty Warthog version of the Ubuntu distro.

you need to cd into the "3ddesktop-0.2.8" directory then ./configure

I got this error...

Code:

checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables

See `config.log' for more details.

...and I don't know how to get into the config.log.

i thought the config.log would be in the directory you ran those commands