Nothing wrong with having it in your home dir, tbh.
If you are the only user on the box or the only one using BlitzMax on it, installing it in your home dir is the least-hassle place for it.
I have mine installed in /home/brucey/programming
so extracting here the root folder becomes : /home/brucey/programming/BlitzMax
Then get yourself the latest (1.24) update, extract it, and run the executable, which will ask you for the location of the BlitzMax folder.
That's it really, as far as installing goes.
From there you can either
1) from the command line :
or 2) from Nautilus (the explorer-type file browser)
Assuming you have all the required developer stuff installed, you should be now up-and-running.
;-)
If you are the only user on the box or the only one using BlitzMax on it, installing it in your home dir is the least-hassle place for it.
I have mine installed in /home/brucey/programming
so extracting here the root folder becomes : /home/brucey/programming/BlitzMax
Then get yourself the latest (1.24) update, extract it, and run the executable, which will ask you for the location of the BlitzMax folder.
That's it really, as far as installing goes.
From there you can either
1) from the command line :
cd to the BlitzMax folder. type, ./MaxIDE
or 2) from Nautilus (the explorer-type file browser)
open the BlitzMax folder double-click on MaxIDE
Assuming you have all the required developer stuff installed, you should be now up-and-running.
;-)