The tarball must be placed in a public folder and the folder name must be called debian/amd64 and/or ubuntu/amd64. Ex. The URL of the server is: ftp://ftp.datanom.net/pub The actual path is: /home/ftp/pub The tarball must then be unpacked an placed under /home/ftp/pub so there now is a folder called debian/amd64 and/or ubuntu/amd64 with the contents of the tarball. Users who whiches to be able to install via apt-get will have to add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list # claws-mail deb ftp://ftp.datanom.net/pub/ debian/amd64/