Hi there folks -

Is there someone out there that can pls help me preferably with a walkthrough on getting stuff off a cd onto my computer ?
I think this process is called , installing from Tarballs...

e.g. I have a Cd that I want to extract a guide...

As there are many different tools and help manuals . The this file that I would like to reference to - the name of the file , and location on CD is at

HELP AdvancedBashScriptingGuide

under this directory is the following six files....

abs-guide-2.3.tar.bz2 (in red writing)
abs-guide-2.3.tar.bz2 (in black writing)
abs-guide.html.tar.gz (in red writing)
README
screenshot.png ( in pinkish writing)
screenshot_thumb.png (in pinkish writing)

Where do I go from here - A step by step would be much appreciated..

As all i want to do is check out the (AdvancedBashScriptingGuide)

Thanks soo much for your time gang.. sevvy8

You can extract tarballs (.tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2 and so on) using the tar command. tar only archives files - puts several files and/or directories together in a single file - so if compression is needed you have to use gzip or bzip2 to compress the tar file - hence the .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 file extensions.

tar extracts to the current directory by default and you can't extract to the CD, so we'll create a temporary directory in our home directory: mkdir ~/abs-files, then hop into that directory: cd ~/abs-files. Now let's extract the files, starting with the bzipped file: tar xfvj /whatever/the/path/is/abs-guide-2.3.tar.bz2
Some prefer using a hyphen before the options to tar but I recommend you do not since you then have to keep in mind in what order to put them. Here I used xfvj: x for extract, f for file, v for verbous (lists the files and directories as they are extracted), and j for bzip2 compression. You will most probably find a directory with the extracted files.

To extract the .tar.gz simply type tar xfvz /wherever/the/file/is/abs-guide.html.tar.gz (here the z indicates gzip compression).


Håkan