Okay, can anyone give a very very very simple and straightforward guide to installing a program from a source tarball?
I am very very new to this and dont understand anything about linux, from forums Ive read, this seems to cause people so many problems when just staring out.
I think if someone wrote a really simple guide in really plain laguage and posted it somewhere it would really help people out starting out.
As a newbie, I have to say it is very confusing going from the safe world of .exe point and click installs to the crazy world of tarballs, I could see how it could put some people off.
Also, does anyone know if there is a program available to automate the whole process? Sort of like an autoinstaller, this would be great for people coming in from windows.
Okay, Thanks
