Hi there, I'm a bit confused about the use of tar and/or gzip/gunzip. If I understand it well, a .gz file is just a file compressed with gzip, and I should just use the command gunzip foo.gz to uncompress it; then, a .tar is an archived file, and to untar them, just use tar - whatever. If the file has the extensions .tar.gz, then I should first use gunzip, and then tar. Is this correct so far? Now, if the file has the extension .tgz, it could be either a slackware package, or a tar gzipped file? In the first case, typing tar -xvfz foo.tgz, would take care of the problem and install it on a slackware distribution (much like dpkg -i foo.deb?), but... how about in the second case? How do I do in order to untar and unzip it?
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