Auto extracting software for Linux?
You could maybe try a little mini-daemon along the lines of:
#!/bin/bash
DOWNLOAD_DIR=~/Downloads
while true;
do
for file in $DOWNLOAD_DIR/*.tar*;
do
if [ -f $file ]
then
tar xf $file
if [ $? -eq 0 ] # remove if successfully extracted
then rm $file
fi
fi
done
sleep 5
done
Just start that running and away you go. I'm not sure what the performance implications of a bash forever loop would be, but just looking at it in top
it doesn't seem to be too bad (i.e. it isn't in there.) You could boost the sleep time if necessary.