[NBLUG/talk] New to Linux

[Mike Rice]

--- Milton Rojas <rojas at astound.net> wrote:

> Thanks for your help.
> Another problem I'm facing is how to correctly uncompress .tar.gz
> files such
> that they can be installed, if they need to do so.
> Any suggestions?
>  
> Milton

difficult: 
milton at machine$ man tar (good for learning)

easier:
milton at machine$ tar -zxvf foo.tar.gz (or filename.tgz)
 where z filters it through gunzip
       x extracts the tar
       v shows you verbosely what's going on
       f introduces the filename
         (from man tar)

then you cd to the foo/ directory and look for a README file.

next easiest:
use Ark or some other GUI archiving program to extract the files.

easiest if you can stand it:
find the .rpm version

TANSTAAFL