I'm a newb, and am going to sound like an idiot but I have downloaded a program, and the instructions to install that were included in it confuse the heck out of me. I know how to open konsole and act as root, but beyond that, I'm close to useless. I've often seen on here many step by step guides including prompt commands given to newbs; something like that would be fantastic! I would really apreciate anybodies help! Here are the instructions I recieved.

Before running
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NOTE: nomad manager will need read/write access to /dev/parport0 (LPT1,
curently hardcoded). To allow access
a) be root (not good idea)
b) give the user you working from access to /dev/parport0. You can do this
in two ways:
1) (better) Check what group does /dev/parport0 belongs to. Add your user to that group.
Example: I run under user 'valters'. /dev/parport0 ownership belong to group 'lp'.
Switch to root, edit /etc/group file, on line lp:[someting] add ',valters' to end of line.
(As in: line in question in my /etc/groups it looks like this: 'lp:7:daemon,lp,valters' ).
You must be root to edit /etc/group file.

2) (not good idea) Simply change /dev/parport0 permissions to be world readable/writable.
(As in: 'chmod a+rw /dev/parport0'). You must be root to change /dev/parport0 permissions.

Run
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run './freenomad'.

NOTE: nomad manager will create debug log file in /tmp/nomad-debug.log.
This logfile will contain detailed debug output and hex dumps of player
commands/responses. Inspect the file to see what is not working...
Don't forget to delete /tmp/nomad-debug.log occasionally, it grows big fast.