Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 12:53 -0700, OldSarge wrote:
Alfredo Yunes wrote:
To the List: Actually buying and installing ANY version of Linux is the major goal of all on this list, I hope! But, when a distro has problems, instead of just bad mouthing it, people should ask for help!! The only "bad mouthing" I have, is that the distros come out with new versions WITHOUT COMPLETELY CORRECTING the problems with what is already out there!!! I am NOT upgrading from 9.2 to 9.3, simply because I have not mastered 9.2, which has a great deal to it! I do NOT understand how to untar no matter who gives me information on how to, for instance, and there are some minor upgrades that are tar that I would like to use and can't. So, is that the distro's fault? NO! I think, though, it would be nice if some of those who begrudge the neophytes attempts to learn and ask, would keep their fingers off the key board unless they have some CONSTRUCTIVE words to say!!!!! :-)
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: correct that to read /tmp/OOo_1.1.4_linuxintel_install.tar.gz