Tarballs

[Stephen]

to extract something i use a simple tar -zxvf for a gzip and i think
tar -jxvf i think for a bzip compressed

most everything i learned about tar i got from a tar --help

hope that helps

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Eric - A <ericallen3 at juno.com> wrote:
> it helps if I need to create, but what I am doing is trying to unpack and install a program.
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> Hi all, I'm trying to learn how to use tarballs but I'm running into a dead-end with the commands I found on a couple of "how-to" pages. The commands I executed are attached and show the commands I used. Any help will do.
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