<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><font color="#888888"></font>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.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>I agree with the above, but if you *do* need to install an application, take a look at checkinstall</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CheckInstall</a></div><div><br></div><div>which will let you create a .deb file from the source install tarball</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br></div></body></html>