On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 18:28 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 13:48 -0700, OldSarge wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 12:53 -0700, OldSarge wrote:
What is it about tar that you don't understand?
tar xvf some_tar_file.who_cares_about_the_extension
will extract all of the files from a tar file. If the tar file is compressed use the appropriate switch: xzvf - for gzipped tar files xjvf - for bzipped tar files xZvf - for compressed tar files
If you only want to look at the contents of the tar file change the x (eXtract) with a t (for Tally).
It really is quite simple once you know a couple of basics. If you give me a specific example of a tar file I will give you the exact tar command.
To Mr. Schneider: Thank you for your response. The tar file I just downloaded is; /tmp/OOo_1.1.4_linuxintel_/install.tar.gz
cd /tmp tar xzvf OOo_1.1.4_linuxintel_install.tar.gz (You had a slash between _ and install which is not correct). cd OOo_1.1.4_linuxintel_install ./install (to install the package, follow the prompts).
There may be a README file with further instructions.
Further checking, there is a 1.1.3 version available for download via YOU (SuSE 9.3) unless there is some feature in 1.1.4 that you need. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge