Tar Gz Files Problem

[linuxquest]

After viewing some tutorials in ...
http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/videos/...escrobbler.gif
and
http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/

on how to compile tar gz files, I still can't compile a tar gz file. Below, are the command that I typed in my gnome-terminal.

alex@alex-desktop:~$ cd /home/alex/Desktop/tplitelx_complete.tar.gz_FILES
alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop/tplitelx_complete.tar.gz_FILES$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop/tplitelx_complete.tar.gz_FILES$ make
bash: make: command not found
alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop/tplitelx_complete.tar.gz_FILES$ sudo checkinstall
sudo: checkinstall: command not found
alex@alex-desktop:~/Desktop/tplitelx_complete.tar.gz_FILES$


Pls help me. Thx.

[Vergil83]

ok, first you have to extact it.
tar -zxvf file_name
(ok, looking at it again, you may have already done this). To do they rest make sure you have build-essential installed

sudo apt-get install build-essential

also take a look at http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...are-linux.html