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Distribution: none yet - tried DSL but it didn't work
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what is .tar file format and how do i unzip it
I am trying to install Ubuntu Linux MythTV but I keep getting the message that this file is a WinZip file...but WinZip does not recognize that file format. What program would I use to unzip these files?
Any help appreciated.
mingdao@wired_silas:/server2/Linux-apps$ file downloads:monobook-03302006.zip
downloads:monobook-03302006.zip: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
Next, if your pants are zipped, and you need to get into them, you would "unzip" them first, right?
Every command in Linux should have a manual page. You can read it by issuing "man command-name" where command-name is the ... yes, name of the command.
Code:
mingdao@wired_silas:/server2/Linux-apps$ man unzip
UNZIP(1L) UNZIP(1L)
NAME
unzip - list, test and extract compressed files in a ZIP archive
SYNOPSIS
unzip [-Z] [-cflptTuvz[abjnoqsCKLMVWX$/:]] file[.zip] [file(s) ...] [-x xfile(s) ...] [-d exdir]
DESCRIPTION
unzip will list, test, or extract files from a ZIP archive, commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The default behavior (with no options) is to extract into the current
directory (and subdirectories below it) all files from the specified ZIP archive. A companion program, zip(1L), creates ZIP archives; both programs are compatible with
archives created by PKWARE's PKZIP and PKUNZIP for MS-DOS, but in many cases the program options or default behaviors differ.
<blah, blah, blah> yes, there's a few hundred more lines.
I think you are trying to do this in linux. tar command is ofcourse good for command line. But for non-command line guys ark and file-roller work great!
What instructions are you following from where? Please give us a link. This will help us to see where your problem arises.
There is a bit of a HOW-TO titled MythTV Feisty, and when I navigate to the MythTV link from there, the downloadable files are .bz2, in the bzip2 format. You would untar (unzip) them with "tar -xvjf mythtv-0.20.2.tar.bz2", for instance.
If you can provide the output of "ls -l" in the directory where those files exist, or just the filenames, that will help us help you.
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