On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Clarence Verge wrote: > > I sent the RPM because I THINK it contains everything - the > > executeable, the docs and some info that allows an uninstall to > > find everything. However, I believe it needs another executeable, > > maybe called simply rpm, which Baslinux doesn't seem to have.
Yes, all that is correct. > Steven provides untar. When I tried to expand the Basic.tgz I used > gunzip. The tar command stands for "tape archive." It basically creates a single file out of a full directory heirarchy... but does nothing to compress that. Usual compression methods are Z and gzip, which will combine with the *.tar file extension to create tarball.tar.gz OR tarball.tgz in the case of a tarred and gzipped directory, and tarball.tar.Z in the case of a Z compressed. Anyway to make use of packagename.tar.gz or packagename.tgz, you can untar and unzip in two separate operations: 'gunzip packagename.tgz' which will then give you packagename.tar which you then can untar using 'tar -xv packagname.tar' Or you can do it in a single operation using the z flag for tar, like so: 'tar -xvzf packagname.tgz' (x = extract, v = verbose, z = filter through gunzip, f = filename) > but something > was lacking because after changing the file permissions I still > could not execute it. > I got an error message: "Cannot execute a binary file." > Geez, what the heck kind of files CAN it execute ? Vulcan ? Was it in your path? Was the executable bit set? > No matter, having discovered the untar executeable, I tried the > Basic.tgz again with: untar basic.tgz > This one IS it. Basic 1.20 or something with docs. > Dunno what the heck the rpm is. Hmmm... maybe untar is an alias for 'tar -x(v)zf' - Steve
