[xubuntu-users] How to Install a tar.gz?

[Robin]

Vincent wrote:
> What particular application is it? There might very well be alternate, 
> better ways of obtaining an installer for Xubuntu as you normally 
> don't want to install from source (or at least if you don't really 
> know how to do it). Instructions are usually in a file named INSTALL 
> in the .tar.gz (which you can extract by double-clicking on it to 
> obtain the source). But again, first tell us which application it is 
> because you most likely don't want to do this.
It's a beta of OpenOffice for Kids 
(http://wiki.ooo4kids.org/index.php/Main_Page). Maybe better to wait for 
a .deb package, lol.

-Robin