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Answer: There was a mixup and the tarball labeled for Ubuntu was actually for CentOS. This sort of worked on my Ubuntu system but various parts were messed up. The tarballs have since been fixed (renamed to the correct names) and installing on Ubuntu via apt is the better way to go anyway.

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