ethylbchem

I am still very new to Linux. And I try to follow everybody's help. But I keep running into little problems.
I thought I would learn about widgets - so I followed the directions:
mkdir "new directory
cd to new directory
then run configure (../configure - with -gtk)
bash - no such command

so I re ran autoconf
still is not there
what happened to the command?? very confused.

I have been trying to install GeForce 9800GTX card - maybe I deleted something without knowing

Also just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04

Hope someone knows what I have done.
Thank You in advance for your help