If you think that it is out of your league then you are probably right.
Compiling programmes from source for newbies is a source of frustration and
that is about all. In the best case it can be done quite simply with three
commandline commands, but this is seldom the case. You often need to install
dependencies separately and then you will inevitably run into conflicts
because you don't have the right version number of the dependency or it will
break another application that requires the dependency that you are
overwriting, etc.