hello all;
i extracted a package to a home folder. now what do i do.
noob windows dum dum. please talk slow and thoroughly, please.

Moved to Other KDE Software.

What do you want to do? A tar.gz is similar to a zip file, it can contain pretty much anything. My guess is that you want to install an application, and that you've downloaded the source code, is that correct? If so, could you please tell us which distribution you use (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, openSUSE, Fedora etc.) and what you're trying to install.

kubuntu 11.04
bibledesktop-bin.tar.gz;
it is a bible study software, i assume since it is a tar i can install it to my machine

What sort of files are contained within the tarball? (tar file)
Alternately, where did you download it from?

This is not really a KDE question (the K/Ubuntu forums would be better), but anyway. On the homepage it says "Download, uncompress and run BibleDesktop.sh". Let's say you extracted the package to /home/geomonroe/jsword-1.6. Go to that directory in Dolphin ("File Manager") and you should find the file BibleDesktop.sh. Click on F4 to open the embedded terminal. Enter the following commands in the terminal:

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chmod +x BibleDesktop.sh
./BibleDesktop.sh

The first command makes the .sh file executable, and the second one executes it. (You can do it in the GUI as well but it's more troublesome to explain. )

If it doesn't work, make sure you have Sun's Java installed. Hope it helps!

thanks will give it a go