I have been working on linux for about a year now and love it, yet there are many little things that I just don't understand like the installation of software packages when not using the software manager or synaptic manager.
I see and know how to install the IDE software via those package managers, yet its version 18. Hence I need to download and manually install the newest version (have a Uno on the way)...but I just can't figure it out.
Will someone be so kind as to help me or point me to a nice step-by-step guide to installation in linux? (it took me a week to figure out how to install Xampp :-/ ).
Alternatively I can (will be dual-booting with XP Pro) just install it the .exe way in XP.
Thanks so much.

(EDIT): P.S. 32bit