INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: ========================== from this directory, do ./configure make (become root) make install if ./configure won't work (maybe because your perl installation isn't in /usr/bin), try perl ./configure The configure script provides some command line options that control how eboard is built and where it is installed, see './configure --help'. By default, eboard is installed to /usr/local/bin , and its data files are installed in /usr/local/share/eboard.