installing non-packaged software

I am relatively new to Linux [I use Kubuntu], and I am continually faced with a problem which is presented by the game, Rain-Slick. I downloaded the game and extracted it to its own file. Now what? I clicked on every file in hopes that there would be an installer, but nothing. I find this to be the only real problem I have with any of the various distributions [I have tried ten to fifteen distros], but it is terribly frustrating and significant enough to prevent me from recommending Linux to others.

Okay, so i just messed with it over VNC. I was able to get it running, they made an easy mistake it seems when making that tarball. There are two files you are interested in: RainSlickEp1 RainSlickEp1_bin The problem is that the first file runs the second one, but RainSlickEp1_bin isn't set as executable for some reason. So it just errors out when you run RainSlickEp1. So what you need to do: I'm not sure what gui you use, so I'm going to give you a quick how-to on how this works from the command line. Open up your terminal and cd to whatever directory you extracted the rainslickep1_linux_r3.tgz file to. In my case I did: 'cd /home/rick/rainslickep1' then set RainSlickEp1_bin to executable. 'chmod +x RainSlickEp1_bin' from there you can either open up your file browser and click on the 'RainSlickEp1' file, or type: './RainSlickEp1' The program should start, assuming there isn't some kind of odd dependecy problem.