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Originally posted by SKYLINEGTR33MWJ
Hi Everyone!
Sucess!! Finally installed Mandrake Linux 9.1 on my system..... got tired of WINXP losing my valuabe data.
Im trying to install some kind of programs or kde themes i find here and there but i dont know how to unzip them or "tar"
I remember along time ago i had installed some programs and i do remember doing sup "tar" and some "gzip" thing but too long ago i forgot....... can someone explain to me how to uncompress download files and install them?
Thanx a lot....
I appreciate any Help. |
I don't have the "tar" or "gzip" flags memorized, but you should "man tar" and "man gzip" to read about the various flags they have and how to use them.
If that information scrolls by too quickly, try "man tar | more" and "man gzip | more"
If gzip doesn't have a "man" page, you can try "info gzip" instead, but I would try to see if it has a "man" page, first.
Once you have that, then first use the "gzip" utility to convert any .tgz or .tar.gz file into a .tar file (renaming the output file, if necessary)
Then, you feed that .tar file to the "tar" program, using the appropriate command line switches you learned from the "man tar".
Also, you might want to "man compress" as well, because there is another compression file format on Linux which ends with the .Z extension, for which you use the "compress" utility to extract.
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