Within the tar archive, there is a folder called .gngeo (dor at the beginning), inside that folder there is a file called gngeorc. That folder should go to /home/user , not MyDocs, because gngeo emu expects to read it from there. The directory extructure should be: /home/user/.gngeo/gngeorc that is why in my original intructions I made the package to extract at /home/user, not hold the emu at /home/user/MyDocs, just at /home/user/gngeo