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Forum: Newbie 2008-05-13, 13:52
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Posted By sjgadsby
Re: file installation

What happened when you ungziped and untarred the .tgz file? Did you see a list of files that were extracted from the archive, or did you see an error message? If you saw an error message, what was...
Forum: Newbie 2008-05-10, 21:37
Replies: 17
Views: 4,380
Posted By sjgadsby
Re: file installation

Possibly
MyDocs/filename.tgz
or
MyDocs/.documents/filename.tgz
depending upon where you saved the file.

Where did you save the file? (Where does the file appear in the File Manager?)
Forum: Newbie 2008-05-10, 18:37
Replies: 17
Views: 4,380
Posted By Benson
Re: file installation

Pasting the exact error message really helps.

The short way (1 command) is
tar xvzf filename.tgz
The -z flag for tar makes it decompress a gzipped tar first.
(Note that the z flag is a GNU...
Forum: Newbie 2008-05-10, 15:31
Replies: 17
Views: 4,380
Posted By sjgadsby
Re: file installation

Files with a ".tgz" extension are commonly called tarballs. They're the ".zip" files of the Unix world. In other words, they're compressed archives of files, not installable packages.* These...
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