Installing Downloaded software

[Michael Miles]

On 04/11/2010 03:11 PM, Henry Wyatt wrote:
> Need to know basics of how o install downloaded programs ie,  Mozilla 
> Firefox 3.6 and Open Office, both files end in .gz
>
> -- 
> Henry E Wyatt Jr
both those files can be installed via add/remove software in the system tab

if you must just download and open with archive manager when you see the 
prompt
extract to a empty folder(create one)

thats it

gz is a compressed format for transmission reasons like zip,rar,arc etc...