Packaging software for Linux is a real challenge, and we've spent a lot of time researching and testing methods to make this as clean as possible. We now have it distilled down to an rpm and a tarball that contains the necessary files and they must be installed before the application. You can use the rpm or the tarball,the * is used in the file names to indicate that the rest of the file name is mutable and not applicable to the information you care about. thekompany-support*