I am having a very hard time installing packages in Linux. I got a simple package of the type tar.gz. The first step went very well, I opened the archive with the tar command. When I went to configure, there were no ReadMe or Install Files in the directory of this package. So I tried the ./configure command. The message said bad command.

The config files in the directory were of a different format such as config.in and config.h.in etc., So I tried also similar related commands such as ./config.in and the same error message bad command was got.

How can I install this package ? It is just a simple program for post it notes. Moreover, I would apprecite links to some good sites that explain how to install packages in general.

Thank you.

Vijay

it could be that the configure file is in some other directory in this package.
you could try finding it by using

find /where/the/file/is -name 'configure'

or there could be a .bin executable or something like setup. Sometimes you don't have to execute a configure file.
I don't know...
hope this helps.

trickyid has done thread explaining how to install programs from source

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45094