Installing Starlogo (or anything, really)

[Madejyalook]

First off, not only am I still pretty new to Ubuntu, but I've had to use windows for a couple months so I guess I've gotten out of the hang of this.

I'm trying to install and run Starlogo (a computer modeling program), so I downloaded starlogo-2.2.tar.gz. I opened this, extracted it... now what do I do? I guess I'm just really drawing a blank here. >.<

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[LowSky]

hope this helps
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

[Madejyalook]

hope this helps
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo

I tried that, but then I got:

autumn@Ubuntu-A:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package checkinstall

Also, just from searching around the web I've seen a lot of people suggesting "How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu" on http://cutlersoftware.com/ubuntuinstall/ , but it looks like that site is down now. Would anyone happen to have a copy of that somehow?

[SunnyRabbiera]

Yeh its a shame the how to install anything in ubuntu site is down as it was really useful to give out a tutorial.

[sumguy231]

Wayback machine to the rescue! (Slow, but it works):
http://web.archive.org/web/200802130...ubuntuinstall/