https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CompilingEasyHowTo
It is easy to do. Do you know what even faster than that and make life
enjoyable? Please go in that handy dandy Synaptic Package Manager and search for
Synergy. You can install it from there. It soooooooo much faster and less of a
headache. Of course installing from source is good practice to know how Linux
works.
Here is a helpful tip. When you want a program and cannot be fond in Synaptic.
Go into your search engine on the net. Search for a Debian package for it. For
example. Synergy Debian package. And you get this result.
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=synergy