Install tarballs
Files with the .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 suffix are package files known as tarballs which are widely used in Linux and Unix.
If there is no native Ubuntu package available in any of the Ubuntu repositories, you can use the command line to install or uninstall the Tarball file by following the instructions that come with the package.
Tarballs often contain the source code of the program, and need to be compiled in order to be used. To do this, extra software will generally be needed (see the section called "Basic Compilers").
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