> I'm still confused when I get a program to install in Redhat linux and
> instead of being in rpm format its in tar format. How do I deal with a
> tar file ?
Tar is a standard archive format for Unix -- think of it as an uncompressed
ZIP type of file. Where as rpm is a Red Hat-specific format, tar files are
generic and can be extracted by any system using the tar command. Basically
you'll use a command such as "tar -xvf <filename.tar>". Do a "man tar" for
info on how to use the tar command.
A similar type of file is a *.tgz file, which is simply a tar file that has
been put through the gzip program to compress it. You can do a "gzip -d
<filename*gz>" to extract the file, or a "tar -xzvf <filename.tgz>".
Similarly, see "man gzip" for details.
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