installing tar.gz tutorial (new-be)

[aaronleishman]

I'm looking for a good tutorial of installing tar.gz programs in mint? Does the tar.gz file need to be in a specfic folder before the tar command? And how do you know which commands to use.

Thanks,

Aaron

[Husse]

There is a wiki about this - or rather mostly a couple of links on a wiki page
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... eb_package
The link to monkeyblog is very helpful