Im a newbie in LInux and have heard abt packages distributed in say binaries like tar.gz
Bz.tar.gz some thing similar to that stuff.
What the differecnce between tar.gz and this bz stuff?
Will it make any trouble by saving a tar bz file as tar.gz using ARK??

Also one more qtn.
Some people told me I could convert tar.gz files to .deb using ALIEN.And I did converted some files to deb in this way.But when i installed them (dpkg) I think all that was done is to merely copy the folder into my root directory.

Is it possible to install a file in bz format by saving it into tar.gz and then converting the stuff to .deb using ALIEN??

(Sorry for this innovative Idea)