Hi there.

So I decided I'd check out linux for the first time, and installed the ubuntu 12.10 demo on a USB. It seemed to work well so I thought I'd partition then install it, but I messed up the partition and totally destroyed my windows installation. I'm on a thinkpad T61 with no CD either, so even pressing the thinkvantage button to try to reinstall it failed, but luckily I still had the USB with ubuntu, so here I am after installing it, almost completely clueless and new to ubuntu/linux, but stuck with it.

So I have bitcoin-0.8.1-linux, which took an effort to even extract from the tar.gz, and also the original bitcoin-0.8.1-linux.tar.gz file. Other than that I'm stuffed. Tried using extracting methods via the terminal after searching around a bit, but there's threads from years back with older ubuntu versions, and they're talking about extracting it but the GUI doesn't even show up, and that natty has to be switched to maverick in some area. Please tell me it's easier than that, and please help me get this thing working on linux. Thanks loads of you can help!

I also lost my first wallet.dat but the only thing I'm really going to lose is the bitcoins from 2nd place on bunny run, so not too bad I guess!