Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Gil wrote: > > > [Tacitus@localhost mozilla]$ gzip -dc > > mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.7-installer.tar.gz | tar -xvf > > tar: option requires an argument -- f > > > > gzip -dc mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.7-installer.tar.gz | tar -xvf - > > Note the trailing ``-''. The -f option to tar(1) means "the next item is > a filename". Specifying ``-'' means use stdin. > > In fact, tar(1) can gunzip files itself: > > tar -zxvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.7-installer.tar.gz
Thanks, I didn't notice the trailing '-'. I ended up gunzipping and then tarring the thing. BTW, where's ./mozilla that the README talks about, I couldn't find it? I just clicked the mozilla-installer script icon and followed the button trail. But it didn't work. The last screen with the install progress indicators appeared for a few seconds then just disappeared. Before that it wanted to know what my proxy settings are, but I don't have any such thing, so I ignored that part. Was that a mistake? I don't have any proxy settings far as I know.
