I bought the game, downloaded the tar.gz, extracted it, but can't figure out how to install. I'm running Linux Mint 14.

I'm a complete noob at installing things on Linux; my experience with the terminal extends to typing character for character what others told me to type and navigating with cd and dir. So if I am told to use such and such command, I won't know what to do; I won't know the syntax and even if I look it up I'll probably miss something that seems so obvious once you're used to it that no-one thought to mention it. I remember not to long ago when I was asking on irc why my password didn't show up when I typed it in the terminal. I thought I had done something wrong.

As a last resort, I could just download the files for windows and run it on there, but I kind-of wanted to be able to play it on Linux.

Oh, I forgot something, I also know the exit command. :)