I am running ubuntu 10.04. I am new to linux, and I've gotten most things that I need working, however I am having trouble installing tar.gz files. A .tar.gz is not an installer type, it is just an ...

Epson's site refers you to Avasys for Linux drivers. On the avasys.jp site, they have .deb packages for a scanner program, but for the print drivers, they only have RPM or tar.gz. I extracted the PPD ...

Few things can be as frustrating to non-expert Linux users as seeing the phrase "... or compile from source packages" on the download page of that killer app to try out (and we know that's often the ...