Hi all. I am a newbie here so this is probably a super basic question.

I installed Knoppix 3.3 to my hard drive. I downloaded a few programs but I dont know how to install them. I unzipped the tar.gz files and I go the dir and there is and install.sh file, but it wont run.

Is there a basic way to install programs on here?
Any help would be appreciated.

thanks
JKL