Dear Bill:
To uncompress a tar.gz file, simply do the following:
As user, type tar -xzf xxx.tar.gz
For example, to untar (uncompress) the mozilla browser suite, do as follows:
tar -xzf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.8-MathML-SVG-XSLT.tar.gz
It is sometimes preferable to put your tar.gz file into a special directory.
For example, after downloading the mozilla file into your home
directory, you can create a mozilla directory (you can call it whatever
you want). For example, you can call it MOZ
$ mkdir MOZ
Then move the tar.gz file into this directory:
$ mv mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.8-MathML-SVG-XSLT.tar.gz MOZ
Now within /home/user/MOZ untar the file as above and you will find a
new subdirectory, in this case, "mozilla" (/home/user/MOZ/mozilla). Now,
either rebuild the tar.gz file (i.e "configure", "make" and "make
install" -- this does NOT apply to Mozilla but to many other tar.gz
binaries). In this case, all you need to do is to go into
/home/user/MOZ/mozilla and type ./mozilla This will launch the Mozilla
browser.
Yours,
Benjamin
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Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
Benjamin and Anna Sher
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