[opensuse] How to install tar.bz



I guess somewhere in my dim past, I read how to convert .tar.bz
to .rpm and then maybe Yast would install it. This is a follow-up
to the email problem thread. Someone said there's a version 3 of
Thunderbird, and there is: I d/l'd Thunderbird-3.0.4.tar.bz.
(The system said I should d/l to ark, so I let it. Now somewhere
on the computer, I know not where, there's a whole
slew of files that were in the .tar.bz. [There's a thunderbird-
3.0.4.tar-1 in /doug/users]) (Yast could not find Thunderbird.
3.0.4.tar.bz, even tho I could find it on the net, with the help
of the old t-bird. Yast can only find a 2.x version.)

Now what?

Please reply in words of one syllable, or similar. I really
don't understand much jargon.

--doug
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