Bryce,
Can Ubuntu handle rpm's?
You might be able to use alien to convert them to deb's.
Anyway, tried the tarball installation method as alternative. It seemed to mostly work, except for some things it wanted a c compiler, and make (and other similar stuff?). Does Ubuntu come with these?
You will need to install build-essentials. This includes, make, gcc and all the other essential stuff to build things :-) -- Later David Kirk
