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Originally Posted by ZachKC
I love the multiple work place space thingy. WIth all the multi tasking I do its nice to have CP in spot music in another and something actully productive in a 3rd place.
I am still having trouble figuring out how programs go. Most the stuff I have added has been through the automatic "add application" feature. Other than that its hit and miss...after extracting a new program how do you usually go about it? There are not install executables are there?
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Software typically comes one of three ways:
1. Source code: You can almost always get this. It does require compiling it yourself and is the least friendly method.
2. Scripted apps: These require no compiling, so generally they're just copied to a location and run.
3. Binary distributions: Typically called "rpms", "debs", "packages", etc. depending on your distro. These are pre-compiled binary versions of an application like you're used to with Windows. The package is an installer and will copy the files where they need to go. What they don't do on occasion is create a menu item in the launcher menu.
Nearly every app will come with a README file that explains how to get it set up and running.