Assumed that the standard libraries & tool installations used in Puppy Linux are compatible to most other Linux derivatives, you can simply unpack the package with:
i am a newbie to linux, and don’t know the ins and outs of the terminal.
with the console open, "Sh-4.1# " comes up. I don’t know what that means!
Anyway i typed in the sudo command as you listed it and got a text display to the effect it wasn’t a command.
I picked the Hd icon, opened the directory and managed to locate a “lib” folder which contained many files that start with lib…, including " libc.so.6". no files starting with a “glib…, uclibc or elibc”
MIOS Studio can be compiled for any linux environment. However I suspect Linux is not right for you.
I use linux in a very minor way. There are lots of in and outs with it generally, compared with Windows and OSX.
Unless you really like going on a huge learning curve, or have some other compelling reason for it, my advice is to install Windows 7 on the machine you formerly used with Windows XP (check compatibility with your hardware of course, usually not an issue, but you should check with the manufacturer, if it’s a generic machine then you won’t have issues).
Windows 7 is much more universal (basically everything runs on it) and you can always find suitably dumbed down advice and tutorials for every issue you might encounter, quickly, by googling.
Linux is great, but certainly isn’t for everyone (contrary to what some enthusiasts like to declare).