dealing with .tgz files
i have downloaded shorten.linux.tgz and dont know where i go from here. when i click on Arc comes up with a list of things. What do i do?
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a tgz extension is just a shorter way of saying tar.gz
its a gzipped tar archive. (yeah, aload of files compressed into one) you can decompress it with the command line tar -zxf the_file.tgz now you can access the files within the archive, and do whatever you want with it. without saying what shorten.linux.tgz is, nor what files are in the archive, i dont know what u want to do with the compressed files... maybe its source code u want to compile ? if so, it should come with README / INSTALL files.. but the usual way is ./configure make su [passwd] make install (or /usr/local/sbin/checkinstall ) depending on if u have checkinstall installed. |
They are also known as Slackware specific packages used with pkgtools in Slackware to manage installing/upgrading/removing packages installed by Slackware.
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True, but the distribution says he is using mandrake 9.1 which i think is rpm based.
anyway, since (s)he hasnt replyed, i assume (s)he worked it out. |
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