./configure missing from tarball

[mauro007]

I am tring to install some games from tarball file from this website:
http://www.happypenguin.org/
I extract the tarball with tar xvzf package name and cd to the directory where the package was extracted. When I run ./configure i get the message "no such file or directory.
I am a beginner and I would like to get out of the confort zone regarding installilng programs. It's easy to rung sudo apt-get or dpkg debian file, but I would like to install programs from source code.
Can anyone help.
Tanks

[croak77]

Check for a README or INSTALL file. What are you trying to install?

[mauro007]

I started reading the install or readme file.
I'm trying to install the following games:
baduk: I'm asked to install the following dependencies :
Qt 4.1.1 or higher
Boost 1.31 or higher. Don't know where to get them.

Awele: I'm asked to edit the Imakefile and specify the location
of libtk.a, libtcl.a, tk.h and tcl.h
Don't have a clue

z-lock: I extract the tarrball into a folder and read the instructions: it tells me to run z-lock.exe, but I get command not file.

All games require some sort of compilers or library that are not on my system or point where the libraries are, which is quite frustrating for a beginner.

[mauro007]

I started reading the install or readme file.
I'm trying to install the following games:
baduk: I'm asked to install the following dependencies :
Qt 4.1.1 or higher
Boost 1.31 or higher. Don't know where to get them.

Awele: I'm asked to edit the Imakefile and specify the location
of libtk.a, libtcl.a, tk.h and tcl.h
Don't have a clue

z-lock: I extract the tarrball into a folder and read the instructions: it tells me to run z-lock.exe, but I get command not file.

All games require some sort of compilers or library that are not on my system or point where the libraries are, which is quite frustrating for a beginner.

[croak77]

Baduk. You'll need libboost-dev and libqt4-dev. Both are in the repo's. It uses cmake so you'll need that too. You might need some other "xxx=dev" packages.

For Z-Lock, you can play it by running ./z-lock from the directory you extracted it to.