When you get the pesky problem of having software that installs itself via tar into various libs, here's a tricK:

make a new directory and untar the tar file properly in here, redirecting the file names generated to a temp file.

 tar xvzf archive-name.tgz /usr/sness 
< filenames.tmp 

open this file in emacs, and use M-x query-replace to make the file into commands.