What happened when you ungziped and untarred the .tgz file? Did you see a list of files that were extracted from the archive, or did you see an error message? If you saw an error message, what was it?

If you didn't get an error message, then you just need to learn some command line skills to look around for your extracted files. Start by opening X Terminal and typing pwd and hitting enter.

pwd is print working directory. It tells you in which directory you currently are. In this case, it should report "/home/user".

Unlike Windows, Linux doesn't use drive letters, so you don't have "C:\Program Files\Winamp\Winamp.exe" and "D:\Pirated MP3s\Divine-The_Name_Game.mp3". Instead, there's a root directory, "/", and all storage (hard drives, flash drives, network drives, etc.) branch out from it like it's the base of a tree.

So, in this case, you're in the directory "user", which is a subdirectory of "home", which is in the root directory, "/". In case you're interested, "home" is the Linux equivalent of the "Documents and Settings" folder in Windows, and "home" contains a directory for each user on the system*, the "home directories" for the users.

Your tablet has one user**, you, and as far as Linux on your tablet is concerned, you're named "user". Yes, it's unimaginative, but it works. Anyway, "/home/user" is your home directory, and it's where X Terminal starts you when you open it.

Now, type ls -l and hit enter. (Note: those are lowercase Ls, not 1s.) This is the command to list the contents of the current directory with an option (the "-l" bit) to make the listing long.

You should see something like:
Directory and file names are at the far right. The alphabet soup at the far left you can mostly ignore, but the first character is "d" for directories and "-" for files***, which is handy to know.

See anything that looks likely to be the stuff you extracted from your .tgz file yet?

To enter another directory, you'll use the change directory command. For instance, if you wanted to enter the MyDocs directory, you'd type cd MyDocs and hit enter. pwd would then report "/home/user/MyDocs". To move up a level, back to "/home/user", type cd .. and hit enter.

Hopefully, this will get you started on using the command line. You can run Google searches on these commands for more information, and ask here if you have trouble.



* Okay, this isn't quite true. There are exceptions. Those exceptions don't concern you right now.

** Again, not quite true, but good enough. Go with it.

*** If you continue on with using the Linux command line, you may eventually see some other letters in this first position. For now, they don't matter.