I am quiet new to this OS. It would be of great help if someone could suggest and explain the commands in installing Hope software.The manual provides the following steps:

I. To install hope, follow the procedures described below.

1. To install hope, make a bin directory under your home
directory. Suppose that the home directory is ~cad and
the source code of hope is under the directory
~cad/etg/hope.

2. Go to the directory hope.
"cd ~cad/etg/hope".

3. To compile hope, type "make".
An execution file "hope" will be created.

4. Copy or symbolically link hope to the directory ~cad/bin using
"cp hope ~cad/bin" or
"ln -s hope ~cad/bin/hope".
II. Before using hope, each user should set the following two environment variables as described below.

1. Set your path (or PATH) environment variable to include
~cad/bin in your search path. This variable, in general,
can be found in your ".cshrc" file. For example, the line

set path = ( .... ~cad/bin)

includes ~cad/bin to your search path.

2. Set the HOPE_MAN environment variable to indicate the
directory hope, where the on-line manual of hope is
located, using the setenv command as shown below.

"setenv HOPE_MAN ~cad/etg/hope"

If you use hope frequently, add the above command to your
".cshrc" file.

You need to start by telling what distribution of Linux that you are using.
Post the output of
Are you sure that the software that you are trying to install is not in your distributions repository? Or something that works similarly.

Are you using c shell or bash? Is this compilable for your kernel, or is this for a BSD?

Sounds like you're about to make a mess.

Tell some more about what you are trying to do, maybe a link to the software's web page.

output of uname -a:
Linux ubuntu 3.16.0-30-generic #40~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 15 17:43:14 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have a few doubts:
Under
I. To install hope, follow the procedures described below.
Whats the difference between the bin directories in step 1 and step 4? Does the bin in step 4 belong to the root directory?

Under
II. Before using hope, each user should set the following two environment variables as described below.
Step1: the path variable is to be set to which bin directory?
Step2 :the setenv command doesnt exist.

can you also include
Where you got this software?

a url link would HELP
that way we can have a look

a google search for "hope software" has Bankruptcy form software

Duplicate post; reported.

Lol, its something not that drastic. Its a VLSI fault simulator. However, i cannot post the software online as it has citations.