[PLUG] Linux newbie needs guidance

[Ali Corbin]

On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:

Upstream considers the supplied file (once extracted) to be satisfactory
> for a typical user to trivially install tomboy. There are lots of
> scripts in top level. But I've no idea of which to run in what order.
>
> richard at stretch-2nd:/usr/local/common/tomboy/tomboy-1.15.8$ dir
> --group-directories-first
> data       test        compile       configure     intltool-extract.in
> Makefile.in       README
> help       Tomboy      config.guess  configure.ac  intltool-merge.in
> Makefile.include  tomboy.doap
> libtomboy  aclocal.m4  config.h.in   COPYING       intltool-update.in
> missing           tomboy.spec
> m4         AUTHORS     config.rpath  depcomp       ltmain.sh
> NEWS              tomboy.spec.in
> po         ChangeLog   config.sub    install-sh    Makefile.am
> pot-update.in
>
> Me, the first thing I'd do would be to read the README file.
That's where they should've put the build instructions.
Ali