On 25/03/2013 05:18, Bill vance wrote: > Howdy; > > I've been checking around for some software, but all I'm finding is the > package name followed by a, "tar.xz". What the dickens do I do with > one of those? > Unpack it using command line tar or Ark. Then you will likely find instructions for compiling or it could be a deb package once uncompressed.