"Actually I just ran the installer"
Here's where the fun starts. What installer? All I see are files with unfamiliar extentions, or none at all.
"extracted the files and ran the installer as root."
I've been searching here, and on Kubuntu forums. Everyone seems to assume that everybody knows how to do these things. I need to find basic, plain english, detailed assistance, I'm afraid.
"usually by localization they mean country, language, etc"
The OS rejected all of my responses as being "non-numeric".
I found a web page called "Linux for Windows Users" and now I'm even more confused!
