Newbie needs to Untar and compile file
Kostas Sfakiotakis
kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Tue Feb 1 23:00:00 UTC 2005
Greetings Stuart.
Stuart K Laing wrote:
>
> The subject line says it all I need some real step by step instructions
> here. I know where the file is and its name it is a tgz
if the filename of the file in question is in the form something.tar.gz or
something.tgz , then it is not exactly a tar archive . It is a tar
archive that
has been compressed with gz ( that is what gz in tgz means ) , so in
order to
untar it you have first to uncompress it .
The command that Scott Harris has just given you does both of these things .
You might want to read the tar man pages which describes things pretty
well .
Kind Regards,
Kostas
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