Re: uncompressing

[Jonathan Sprague]

Jerome Tan wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm a newbie, I just bought Redhat Linux 5.1 and I'm curious how I could
> install the video driver I download from the web with my X-Free... Does
> anyone know how to uncompress TAR or RPM or GZ files under Linux?

tar -xzvf (name-of-file).tgz (or .tar.gz)
rpm -i (name-of-file).rpm

more info;
man tar
man rpm