im running ubuntu and i was wonering if there is an auto installer for tarballs
hey adaevil im kinda new 2 linux so how would i go about doing that in terminal the program im tring to install is sbagen4.4.5
Generally binaries are distributed as .deb packages, and source code is distributed as tarballs. So no, there is not really an auto installer - you will have to compile.
tar -zxf foo.tar.gz ; cf foo ; ./configure ; make ; make install
but that dumps proograms in /usr/local with no way to keep track of them. Better to find the instructions to make the Debian package, possibly "make deb". Read the install docs.