What do I do with tar.xz files after they sit in downloads folder?
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What do I do with tar.xz files after they sit in downloads folder?
What do I do with tar.xz files after they sit in downloads folder (after extracting them to downloads folder)?
Do I right click on them and select what exactly? Or do I need to go in terminal?
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What do I do with tar.xz files after they sit in downloads folder (after extracting them to downloads folder)?
Do I right click on them and select what exactly? Or do I need to go in terminal?
A tar.xz file is a archive file - it contains other file(s). It depends what's in it as to what you should do next.
Do you know what's in it?
Where did you download it from?
After extracting, look in the resulting directory, there's usually a README file. Read it. There's sometimes an INSTALL file too, giving instructions on how to - guess what?
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