Hey guys:

I am pretty new here, but I have a question. I had an install of knoppix and windows set up and I trashed it all and did a reinstall due to worries about virii.

I am reinstalled and even have LILO working unlike before, but now I am confused by installs of programs that I download for knoppix/linux.

When I get tarballs of programs what steps _should_ I perform to untar and fully install any given program? For instance, I can't seem to get Moz. Firebird to "install" in the sense that the only way that I have to run it is to Bash to the directory that the files are in and do: ./MozillaFirebird

The thing is that I would like this instead:

I wish that I could either run that command line instance from any directory *and* I also wish that I could go into kde and run it just as I do when I click on the other internet listed apps under the K menu.

This is the type of thing that I don't know or understand.