how to install a .package?

Fri Sep 13 20:11:30 UTC 2013

On 13 September 2013 22:00, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

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> tail --bytes=1169788 LaCie\ Network\ Assistant\ 1.1\ Linux.package |
> lzma -d | tar x
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Sorry for my ignorance, can you explain what that command does?
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