Hi People

I have just managed to install Fedora on dual boot and would like to get my modem working. (Alcatel speedtouch usb adsl).

I have been to the sourceforge site (I am not allowed to post a URL because this is my first post, so here's the end of it for clarity: project/showfiles.php?group_id=32758&package_id=28264&release_id=198913) and downloaded everything that appears.

Problem 1 - do I need both the tar.gz and the tar.bz2 files or are they different versions of the same thing? I have only vaguely heard of gz but know nothing about bz2 and googling (tm!) for it doesn't enlighten me a great deal!

Problem 2 - I know tar is the same a zip but haven't a clue how to unzip/untar the file(s).

A pointer to a (VERY basic) tutorial or some clues here would be great.

Thanks!

try reading man tar
to unzip that file use "tar jxvf filename.tar.bz2" replace file name with the name of the file.

tar -zxvf (file name).tar.gz
tar -zxvf (file name).tgz
tar -jxvf (file name).tar.bz2

.tar.gz and .tgz files are the same thing.

tar parameters...
f means file (must be the last parameter passed before the file name is given)
x means extract
v means verbose
z means archive is gzip compressed
j means archive is bzip compressed.

for more info.. type
'man tar'

Read this http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/spe...le_fedora.html

just a comment.

"f" doeesnt have to be the last argument passed.

I can quite easily type

tar xfvz something.tar.gz

and it will extract fine.

bz2 is a more compact version of the gz file.


you're going to want to go to the directory where the tarball is: in the terminal and enter in:

tar -xzvf filename.tar.gz OR tar -jxvf

then it will extract and create a directory within the current one

change into that directory

now this is where you must read the README, u can get at it through this command vi README or you can just access it through your Xwindows and jut click on the tarball

usualy now you will run ./configure

followed by make
and then make install

some programs will sub out the ./configure for something like ./mozilla-installer (thats in the case of mozilla

hope this helps

Thanks for the above, everyone - it's exactly what I needed (I am off to find a guide to linux jargon on Google soon - when I can get online in Linux anyway!)

Andrew - you must be psychic! I have been messing with this for hours now and had figured I must be installing something out of date. Off to read more from your link...

a really good guide to linux commands is:

oreillynet.com/linux/cmd


every single command