On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> "Eric L. Damron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the info Brett.
> >
> > And BTW I am a newbie to Linux and I have been RTFM almost constantly and
> > I'm getting F*&king tired of RTFM so if I can get a little information
> > without RTFM, I certainly will.
> >
> > So, If anyone out there can tell me how to install a "tar.gz" file so that
> I
> > don't have to RTFM I would appreciate it!
> >
> > Thanks.
> =========================
> tar -xzvf <file>.tar.gz
> It's in the FM ;o)
> Mike
The above is correct, however just tellig someone to untar the file
without telling him or even warn him what he is doing is going a
little to far.
tar files can will and have done damage to my system when i was a
green newbie many moons ago. I _still_ do the following before i
untar any file other than a linux kernel source tree.
zless <file>.tar,gz all i want to see is what is in the top left hand
corner, which will tell me if the tar file creates its own directory
or just deposites all its files in the presant working directory, and
yes there still are still idiots who create archives like that, so be
warned.
The best advice here is;
mkdir /tmp/newfile
cp file.tar.gz /tmp/newfile
tar xzf file.tar.gz
Yes its possably work for nothing, no its NOT a bad idea, untill one
get the hang of things.
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