Thursday, April 4, 2019

software installation - Installing tar.gz file on Ubuntu 12.04

Completely new to coding, Linux, and Ubuntu. Attempting to install the "Stencyl" program. Downloaded the tar.gz file. Opened the terminal and installed libgc-dev (the packages for the compiler) using this command:


sudo apt-get install libgc-dev

From there, I am 100% lost. How do I locate the file in my directory and install it? I have the extracted and original archived file. I'd rather look stupid and learn how to do this the right way than give up and go back to Windows.

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