Re: GNU

From: Martin (nospam_at_example.org)
Date: 11/01/03 

Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:50:52 +0000

Sherman H. wrote:

> I am a newbie in Linux. What is the file extension tgz? Do we have a
> standard way to unzip it and make it to work? Thanks.

It's a "tarball": a .tar file that has been gzip'ped.

By force of habit, I tend to say:
        gzip -dc fred.tgz | tar -xvf -
but I think you can also say something like
        tar -zvf fred.tgz
to do the same thing. Type "man tar" and "man gzip" for info. You may also
see fred.tar.bz2 which is similar, but uses bzip2 rather than gzip for the
compression.

After unzipping and untarring, you have an uncompressed version of whatever
files and directories were in the archive. After that, you might typically
have to say:

        cd fred-1.01
        ./configure
        make
        make install

... if the thing you've downloaded is source code for a program of some
kind.

HTH

- Martin.

        

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