One way to install software is by using Compress Tarball.
That's an archive that is compressed with the TAR utility.
Now it's kind of a surprise. You need to uncompress the package and then you need to find out what
it has. That might be a setup script, it might be source files, it might be so much more.
Best thing to do is check if there's a readme file that is giving you more specific instructions.
Now, to get the software on your computer, you need to install it, and that might
involve compiling it as well. And compiling makes software ready to run on a specific platform.
Being open source, compiling on Linux is quite common because that makes that software that has been written in a generic
way will work on your platform no matter what it is. But compiling is kind of a lot of work.
You need different tools like the SQL compiler, GCC and the make utility.
The disadvantage of this strategy is that there is no central
registration of software that was installed this way on your computer.
And fortunately, nowadays this is becoming increasingly uncommon. That's why I'm not
going to demonstrate and we are going to talk about software packages.