Ok, I'm using Mepis and I'm fairly knew to the Linux Command Line. I did read up a little though, I tried running some of these commands I found here on linuxquestions.org, from what I understand though, I could be using "apt-get" since Mepis is a Debian distro. My file is in:

/home/demo/Documents/myApp.bin


I've tried sevral commands like:

~/myApp.bin ./configure
./configure ~/myApp.bin
make ~/myApp.bin
apt-get install myApp.bin
apt-get install myApp.bin -b

And I get no results(even while logged in as root), just a lot of errors like:

make: *** No rule to make target `/home/demo/myApp.bin'. Stop.

Anyway, I'm sure a site like this is flooded with noobs asking this
kind of stuff, but this is my first post and I did try to research this myself... but can anyone help me out?

If its postfixed with .bin, it means that its one single precompiled binary file. So, what you probably need to do with it is run it.

apt-get works with packages that are archives of files a program needs, they are postfixed with .deb always. Source packages you get when you unpack a tar.gz or tar.bz2 or similar with:
They usually go all under a directory. That directory might have a configure script that prepares the sources for compiling, then make compiles it and make install installs. So, with a source package the install might go like this:
the && just chains commands together, the chain will be executed only if there is no error in a previous stage.

So, thats the basics of installing software, have fun. (:

ok, i think i did not understand well what you want to do but....

you can install a program in linux both by compiling it or by coping executables
in your system.
apt-get is a tool for debian and debian-derived distros, it manages for you
the downloading from a sources (/etc/apt/sources.list is the list of your sources),
the dependencies between programs, the installation of the program in the rigth folders and the updating.

make is a tool that's present in every distro and you need it to compile the major of
the programs wich are available on internet by the source code.
you usually download a tar.gz file, unpack it , cd into the folder created by the unpacking
and type make. make needs a file called Makefile in the present working directory when you type it
otherwise it outputs 'no rule to make target....'

so my question is
wath is your file?
is it an executable? is it compiled for linux systems?
if yes you can launch it just by typing './myApp.bin' from /home/demos/documents

Ok I tried the codes above as Root and User but I keep getting:

Maybe this is due to the fact I'm running Mepis off the live cd right now. I thought I read you could install stuff while running the live cd (maybe that was knoppix...) but I guess I keep trying until I can fix the boot on Windoze and install this as Virtual Machine again.

Actually that happens because the file doesn't have rights to execute.

that should fix that.. (:

Ok I tried chmod +x ~/myApp.bin and for once I didn't get any errors. But unfortunately the app did not install itself either. Anyone else got any advice?

Run that again after you chmod the file. When you got the permission denied error, that was it's way of telling you that you didn't have permission to execute the file. We're just assuming that your user owns it so chmod +x changes the permissions on the file to allow your user to execute it. Now you need to go back and try to execute it again, it should work no problems

Wow, I just ran my first two apps in Linux! Thanks