Trouble with Synaptic

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

Matthew Flaschen spake thusly on 06/19/2007 08:15 PM:
> Donald Metheny wrote:
>> Have made repeated attempts to use Synaptic to install a program I
>> downloaded to my Desktop. The program is in the form:
>> programname.tar.bz.
> 
> This is just a compressed archive (like a ZIP file).  Most likely it
> contains source code.

Although it *could* be a binary (e.g. downloading Mozilla's own Firefox
from getfirefox.com)......


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            Scott
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