some help needed with these tarballs.....trying to install WoWmatrix for world of warcraft (which comes in a tarball -_-) so i want to know....is there a GUI that can allow me to install it automatically?
Tarball GUI...is there one?
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No, you will have to install it from source. It's usually fairly easy if you're not missing anything.
sure the archive manager called *file-roller* is built into ubuntu.
from a terminal you can type
file-rolleralso its under Applications/Accessories. if you dont see it you need to right click on the applications menu and then enable *Archive Manager* under applications by putting a tick mark in the box.
You can extract a tarball by right-clicking and "extract here" but after that you're generally stuck at the command line. Tarballs are a back-door way of installing software, and it's always better to use the repos or .debs (for which there is a GUI installer)