Trouble with Synaptic

[Matthew Flaschen]

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.

> When I do a search in Synaptic it finds the program
> but places it in the left window and I can do nothing with it. How do I
> get it to come up in the right window so I can install?

Synaptic does not install from source.  It downloads and installs Debian
packages from the Ubuntu repository.  What program are you trying to
install?

Matt Flaschen