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Wondering if anyone has attempted installing and running SecondLife? There is a a download file for linux released by Linden Labs ( SecondLife-i686-3.3.3.260300.tar.bz2).
Looking forward to comments

Is this about running or packaging SecondLife? As the thread title and your question diverge a little ...
For SecondLife viewers, there are alternative ones, f.ex. Imprudence: http://blog.kokuaviewer.org/

Apart from that, was already asked here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=500 but no response

Whoops, sorry about that. What I meant was has anyone tried installing and running the Second Life Tar Bz2 file? If they have tried and it can't be got to work, are there plans to package it.

Well, did you try to install and run it from that tarball, and what are the results?

There's already a package request, but seems nobody had free resources to implement this.
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5675

I do not know how to install a tar.bz2 file. Perhaps you could tell me?

You can open a tar-file (which is an archived file) by means of Ark.
You should by able to extract such an archive file by right-clicking in Dolphin, and choose "Extract".
This will result into the unpackaged file(s) and/or folders, which can moved to any place of your likes.

Good luck!

A .tar.bz2 is nothing you can "install". It's basically just a bzip2-compressed archive, which you should extract, and then follow the instructions to install it.
Sometimes contained in a README inside the archive, but it should also be on the website where you got it from.
But often you can just start it from inside the extracted archive because mostly no installation is needed.