John F. Kohler wrote:

> I have the version of mozilla that came with my distribution of
> Red Hat 7.2 and after installation I went to the website for
> Mozilla.
> 
> I had seen the RPM version of Mozilla in the past, but could
> not find one now.
> 
> I understand how to install an RPM version, but I need help
> with "tar" and "zip" formats.  I do not understand the
> "xpi" extension format.
> 


.xpi are cross-platform installer, they are handled by mozilla itself.
The reason you can't find an .rpm is most likely that nobody have made
one yet.
as for tar, read 'man tar'...
the short tale of how to extract tar.gz files; tar -zxvpf file.tar.gz

Hope that helps...

> 
> I would appreciate any help from anyone.

Your welcome.

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