On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 23:53 -0700, wetworkx wrote:
> Hello, I am a Linux newbie can someone please give me instructions in
> installation of tar.bz2 files, and also could they please tell me the
> difference between a tar.gz and a tar.bz2 file?
>
> Tom
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To extract a tar.bz2 file cd to the directory where you want to extract
the file and then type
tar xvfj <filename>
As for your second question tar.gz and tar.bz2 are tar (Tape Archive)
files compressed in two different formats. gz uses gzip/gunzip and bz2
uses bzip2/bunzip2. To extract a .tar.gz file follow the same
instructions as I gave above except substitute a 'z' for the 'j'...
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