[Konserve-general] Trying to restore tar backup

[elswood <bla...@gm...>]

I installed konserve while I was still using Kubuntu Gutsy 7.10.  I made
a backup of my home directory onto an external hard-drive.  Then,
because of issues with Kubuntu 64 bit and the flashplayer in konqueror,
I decided to install just regular (not 64 bit) Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10
instead.  I have tried to restore or untar my home backup file created
in konserve, but it doesn't work.  Tried to install konserve into Ubuntu
to see if I needed konserve in order to restore my backup but that
didn't work either.  Can someone help me to get the backup tar untarred
on my external drive or into my new home directory?  The backup file is
over 3 gigs in size compressed.  My external drive is 160 gigs and
mostly empty except for this file.  There must be some trick or other to
doing it.  But nothing I've tried so far seems to work.  Thanks in
advance for any help you can give me. (Just clicking on the file shows
nothing in it with the archive program; but it's over 3 gigs in size.)
Elswood