https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo
It is easy to do. Do you know what even faster than that and make life
enjoyable? Please go in that handy dandy Synaptic Package Manager and search for
Synergy. You can install it from there. It soooooooo much faster and less of a
headache. Of course installing from source is good practice to know how Linux
works.
Here is a helpful tip. When you want a program and cannot be fond in Synaptic.
Go into your search engine on the net. Search for a Debian package for it. For
example. Synergy Debian package. And you get this result.
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=synergy

I like the idea of using the repositories wherever possible. No sense in
reinventing the wheel, but it is also good to know some basics such as
installing from source code. Here is simple tutorial:
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html

OK. I installed Synergy from the repositories. Got it working from my Vista
laptop to my Jaunty desktop. Works great!. Now I also have Jaunty on the laptop,
so... I installed Synergy under Jaunty on it. Now I cannot get the laptop to
share the keyboard and mouse with the desktop when both are running Jaunty. The
QuickSynergy gui works on both, but it's difficult to understand the settings
options. I have tried connecting using ip addresses and hostnames with no luck,
and no error messages.

Anybody here use Synergy linux to linux? Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?

That's a perverted view of what constitutes "basics." It reinforces the idea
that Linux is only for the technical elite.

There are many reasons to install from source code. Admittedly it isn't for
everybody, but he expressed a desire to do it. I believe I began my posting
with saying that I was glad that deadgobby posted the repositories idea
which he eventually used.

To me the GUI is less basic and more refined while the commandline is
considered more basic as much more is going on between the user and the
interface. Most people don't want to learn the basics and that is fine by
me. I prefer the GUI along with most people. However, the more sophisticated
the GUI becomes the farther from the action we get which at its most
fundamental or basic level is binary. I stand by what I wrote.

As for your position that it is elitist to suggest that we must all be geeks
to use Linux, I agree with that as well and don't think my posting reflected
that. Desktop Linux does not require you to be a geek anymore than Windows
does. What it does do is allow you to become geeky if that is your
inclination because it works on multiple levels equally well.

Where we might disagree is what level is considered more basic, the GUI or
the CLI. Since the GUI is becoming ever more sophisticated and binary is
going nowhere, I consider the CLI more basic.

This idea of geek via ordinary user was the way Geeks kept the crowd
out, but today Linux is produced for anyone to use.

I wanted to get the
program installed, and did not know it was in a repository. Installing from a
repository is much easier, but I wanted to know why the .tar install was not
working. No elitist here!
For Gord, I like to think I am a geek, too! Though I have been working with
Microsoft os's for 20+ years, and I feel I am somewhat well versed in dos,
basic, VB, and Windoz desktop and Network support, Linux is all new to me. Most
ways of doing things are different on top, even if underneath the hood, the
process is the same.
Imagine what it would be like to be dropped of in a large city in a country
where you don't speak the language... That's what I feel like with linux. I'm
trying to learn Linux/Ubuntu because a potential employer wants to get away from
Micro$soft. In this economy, I can't afford not being flexible...
As Windoz is my 'native' language', I will always feel more comfortable using
it. But, I want to be able to support Linux as well. I have 2 computers at home,
each with XP,Vista and some flavor of Linux, and will continue to learn.

I know exactly how you feel, I'm about a year ahead of you. I started in
computers when the assembler produced an "object deck" of punched cards! I've
written thousands of lines of code, a lot of it in the assembly language of four
different architectures. But now, I feel the operating system has failed if I
must type in a command. (Which also happens with Windows...)