Could someone help me with this? I downloaded what I assume is a GNOME desktop package. It has been unzipped into its own folder. Here is what the contents looks like:

root@Home:/home/knoppix/tmp# cd gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1
root@Home:/home/knoppix/tmp/gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1# ls
AUTHORS Makefile.in config.sub gnome-version.xml man
COPYING NEWS configure gnome-version.xml.in.in missing
COPYING-DOCS README configure.in install-sh mkinstalldirs
COPYING.LIB acconfig.h desktop-docs intltool-extract.in pixmaps
ChangeLog acinclude.m4 desktop-links intltool-merge.in po
HACKING aclocal.m4 gnome-about intltool-update.in stamp-h.in
INSTALL config.guess gnome-desktop.spec libgnome-desktop xmldocs.make
Makefile.am config.h.in gnome-desktop.spec.in ltmain.sh
root@Home:/home/knoppix/tmp/gnome-desktop-2.6.0.1#

I have no clue how to install this. The "instructions" are so archaic and hard to figure out. I read alot in the apt-get tutorial but thats confusing too. It seems that installing programs is one of the hardest things about linux for me. I have been typing in some commands at console to install this program but I get only errors. If I do a regular apt-get upgrade, update & install for gnome, i get nothing but the same error. something about a broken package and it will not install, so I downloaded this file from the GNOME website. The README and INSTALL files tell me pretty much nothing at all! Please help! I would like to try out GNOME to see if i like it. bob