On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:31, jose usoz wrote: > > I just loaded Mandrake 10 and want to add new programs like > > the latest version of Open Office, AOL Instant Messenger and > > a couple of others so I downloaded those files. They are > > tar'd and gzipped. However, I do not seem to have a program > > in KDE to unzip them. When I right click on them it does not > > give me the choice to unzip them because it does not know > > what they are. I have also downloaded the program KARCHIVER > > as an RPM but cannot get it to load becasue it fails file > > dependencies for a file that is in the RPM. I am at a stand > > still. DO you have any advice on how to get these programs > > unzipped so I can install them or what might be the problem > > with the KARCHIVER RPM? > > > > Thanks, > > Steve > > Hello, > maybe the zip?: > > Nombre: zip > Versi�n: 2.3-10mdk > Tama�o: 273 KB > > Resumen: A file compression and packaging utility compatible > with PKZIP. The zip program is a compression and file > packaging utility. Zip is analogous to a combination of the > UNIX tar and compress commands and is compatible with PKZIP (a > compression and file packaging utility for MS-DOS systems). > > saludos, > jose. You might want to try 'tar xzf <filename>'. -- Regards: Hoyt Registered Linux User # 363264 http://counter.li.org
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