apt-get install

So yeah, I am so totally out-of-date with the newsgroup world that I had not heard about par2 files. Nor nzb files, actually, but that’s a topic for another day. It turns out that par2 files are simply parity files, which can help recover from missing parts of multi-part binary posts. Fortunately, with my usenet provider (Tiger Usenet), retention is high enough that I don’t really have to worry about it. But for those of you looking for assistance with Ubuntu (or other Linux flavors) and par2 files, there’s an execellent tutorial available from the alt.binaries.blog.