According to Akintayo Holder: While burning my CPU.
>
> Basically a tar.gz can be a binary or source. WordPerfect comes as a
> tar.
>
> 1. UnTar the file
> tar -xvzf /stuff/windows-is-crap.tar.gz
> 2. cd windows-is crap [Safe assumption]
> 3. less README
> 4. ./configure
> 5. make
> 6. make install (as root)
>
> If it is a tar.bz2 the first step changes, first you must unbz2 (not a
> word) the file then untar it
> 1. bzip2 -d /stuff/windows-is-crap.tar.bz2
> 2. tar -xvf /stuff/windows-is-crap.tar
>
> Note the change in the tar options, and the fact that bzip2 will replace
> the original with the tar, tar leaves the original.
No it does not, at least not here, bzip2 -d completly untar's the archive
and deletes it, so by using bzip2 as follows will unarchive untar it and
will not delete the origanal file.
bzip2 -dk windows-is-crap.tar.bz2
Imagen what the comments would be *IF* the origanal question asker uses
your options and he had not made a copy first.
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> --
> You forgot, once we were brought here, we were robbed of our names,
> robbed of our language. We lost our religion, our culture, our god
> ... and many of us by the way we act, we even lost our minds.
> RH5.2 Personal 17728385 http://www.bigfoot.com/~blakdogg
>
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Regards Richard.
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