how to install nightingale software
Hi all! I've been using Ubuntu for 5+ years now, and I'm ashamed to say that I have never successfully been able to get a program running from a tarball. I decided to give it another shot tonight, and I ran into problems again. I'm not a terribly advanced user, but I really want to learn to do this, and thus far the internet has proven surprisingly unhelpful. I'd really appreciate someone letting me know where I'm going wrong.
What I'm trying to install: Nightingale
What I've done so far:
1) Downloaded the tar.bz2 file and saved it to a file named "Projects."
2) In the terminal, I navigated to the Projects folder and entered "tar xvjf nightingale.
3) That seems to go fine, so I navigate to the new nightengale folder, check to make sure there's stuff in there and look for a readme file.
4) Finding none, I try to run the configure command. I enter "./configure" into the terminal, and I get back "bash: ./configure: No such file or directory"
This is what's got me stumped. This always happens, and I don't know what the problem is. I have GCC and build-essential, and I am up to date on my updates. I saw something on a forum about changing my bash path but frankly I don't know what that means. Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Cheers,
Ashton
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