Re: Installing, Managing, and Running Applications on Linux.

[VinceMch]

>What do the names of the packages you downloaded end in?

Some of the packages I have are:

Adobe Acrobat Reader = linux-ar-40.tar.gz

Webmin (two downloads) = 1.  webmin-0.80.tar.gz
                             2.  webmin-0.81.rpm

nmap (two downloads) =  1. nmap-2.53-1.scr.rpm
                          2. nmap-2.53.tgz


 
>   Some formats you might see are:
> 
>    .tar      tar archive
>    .tar.gz   tar archive compressed with GNU gzip
>    .tgz      short for .tar.gz
>    .tar.Z    tar archive compressed with Unix compress
>    .zip      PKZip-compatible archive
>    .rpm      Red Hat Package Manager
>    .deb      Debian package tool
>    .shar     shell archive (rare these days)
> 
>   What to do with a package depends on what kind it is.
> 

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