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it should be a deb - file which is tared and compressed. the ending should look somehow like:
tgz ; tbz ...
First you need to unpack it. you may do that from the archiver or ( i think) from the file-manager too.
or from the command-line, terminal-emulator, similar to the following:
gzip -d ***.tgz
tar -xvvf ***.tar
(-d -> decompress, -xvvf extract very verbose to file)
you may try tar -xzf or tar -xjf, i usually do it in two different steps (1)decompress 2 )untar)

once that is done (somehow) if you get any error-messages install the packages which are said to be missing in the usual manner.
might be it will work, might be it wont good luck

big sorry, my fault.
i have assumed its a *.deb but it seems to be from source. i did never build from source and dont know.
check if this how-to may be a help:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 76&start=0
(its from the debian-forum, so i dont know if it will help you out... but its said to be very good for such purposes.
i mainly wanted to excuse my fault and just added the link)

good luck