installing snort - Red Hat 9 - basic questions

[Patrick Nicholls <patrick2 () datacubenetworks com>]

HI Folks:

Excuse my ignorance. I have been trying to track down the 1,2,3 step by 
step for installing
snort on Red Hat Linux ver 9.  I am quasi-learned for Linux but am getting 
the hang of it.
This is what I have: the snort-2.0.1 directory (uncompressed w/ 22 folders 
in it).
Don't know how to 'run' snort- in any mode.  In Windows I guess I'd be 
looking for the snort.exe.
Did read the online snort materials but they skipped right over the basic 
stuff, like installing it..
Any help and URL's (already read the ones from snort.org) would be appreciated.
Thanks-
Patrick