You do know that the build instructions are done entirely by typing everything (or copy-pasting) into a terminal, exactly as it's presented, right? Put in one line, hit "Enter", wait for it to do its thing and get you back to the shell prompt, and then punch in the next line. Should take minutes. Except for the "apt-get install" all the dependencies line, I've pretty much got the whole thing memorized by now.
Uhmmm. Maybe? I think I followed the directions up above by copy/pasting each command serially as you say. When I was done there was just a new command prompt, no cgminer. Does that mean I built it? How do I know if I did it correctly?
I had to open the git file it linked to and find the cgminer executable file, which I can bring up but it won't recognize the miners and I have to copy/paste everything into it to get it started (pool address, my Bitcoin address, etc. The same stuff I use a Windows .bat file to do).