How to install a .gz file after using gunzip

lel800 · 10-10-2003, 03:43 PM

According to the man pages...

"gunzip takes a list of file on its command line and replaces each file whose name ends with .gz ..... with an uncompressed file without the original extension."

So I used gunzip on my mozilla firebird download.

gunzip -v mozillafirebird-061-i686-pc.gz

And now I have simply mozillafirebird-061-i686-pc as the file.

But now how do I install this as a browser?

I tried "bash mozillafirebird-061-i686-pc"

But the response was "cannot execute binary file".

How do I run it? How does it work?

I appreciate any feedback. Thanks in advance for your time.

deoren · 10-10-2003, 03:55 PM

Hi,

More than likely what is left after running gunzip is a .tar file, without the proper extension.

Try

Code:

mv mozillafirebird-061-i686-pc mozillafirebird-061-i686-pc.tar

# Then
tar xf mozillafirebird-061-i686-pc.tar

This should give you the directory and the files contained therein.

bahadir · 10-10-2003, 03:56 PM

try:

tar -zxvf mozillafirebird-061-i686-pc.tar.gz

z = First gunzip file
x = Extract
v = List files while extracting
f = File [filename]

You can unzip tar.bz2 files with:

tar -jxvf mozillafirebird-061-i686-pc.tar.gz
j = Un bzip file

lel800 · 10-10-2003, 04:40 PM

Thanks to both of you for your posts..

deoren - I did what you suggested and it worked! Thanks!

bahadir - Yes I've seen that before, that you can do a gunzip with a tar command. But I never saw the "tar" word in the original or subsequent filename. So I didn't go that way. But thanks for the feedback..

slakmagik · 10-10-2003, 05:09 PM

I post this a lot - whenever you have a file do something funky like that, do 'file filename'. It's great. You get stuff like:

openssl-0.9.7c-i486-2.tgz: gzip compressed data, was "openssl-0.9.7c-i486-2.tar", from Unix, max compression
openssl-0.9.7c-i486-2.tgz.asc: PGP armored text
openssl-0.9.7c-i486-2.txt: ASCII English text

Tells you exactly what it is in many cases which lets you know exactly what to do with it.

deoren · 10-10-2003, 05:15 PM

Awesome tip! I'll remember that one (hopefully).

lel800 · 10-10-2003, 08:16 PM

Hey digiot that's pretty neat.

I used another copy of the original mozillafirebird.....gz file. And I reran the gunzip command and again got the resultant file with no extension.

Then I used

"file mozillafirebird-061-i686-pc"

And the result was:

"mozillafirebird-061-i686-pc: GNU tar archive"

So that would have told me what it was. Thanks for the advice!