help uncompressing file format
 

being slightly new to linux i am having a hard time trying to uncompress a file with the ext .tgz I have tarred a lot of files with .tar.tz and installed without any problems but what command would i use in console.
I get file or directory not found ..I search here for the answer before asking...thanks for all your help

For a file with tgz is usually a gzipped tarball so to uncompress

tar xvzf thefile.tgz

That should work.

the extension tgz is typically (though not always) identifying a Slackware package. It's a little different that a g-zipped tar archive (tarball) with the extension tar.gz. You can uncompress a slack-pack however.

thanks fo rthe help bu tthe file must be corrupted..i tried that command over and over and i get .......Cannot open: No such file or directory
(child) error is not recoverable exiting now
child returned statues 2

No such file or directory means that the file doesn't exist, not that its corrupt, are you in the right directory and entering the right name for the file?

at console i typed pwd then ls and it shows it there..I have been trying this for over a week on 2 different pc running to different linux's and i get the same thing ..Only in konqueror i can see it uncompressed but then its not excutable.. i then try chmod +x and i get no such firl or directory on that

In Konqueror right click, and select decompress here...

If that doesn't work. I'd try downloading another copy.

Same thing......thank you for all of your help...a friend gave it to me to see if i could get to open ...he couldnt also...again thanks i told hm a forums would be the way to go for help...:-)