Fedora has always had the gzip utility, hasn't it? I expect it also always had the version of the tar command that can unzip as well. Therefore, you should be able to unzip in one command Imagine that your file is named ooo2.4-xx.tar.gz Create a directory for just that file. Type: mkdir somedirectory. Move the file to that directory: mv ooo2.4-xx.tar.gz somedirectory
And change your focus to that directory as well (so you don't have to be typing lengthy paths with each command). cd \<path>\<to>\somedirectory Assuming that you are now in the directory where you put only the ooo2.4-xx.tar.gz file (or whatever it was called that you downloaded from OOo.org) then to decompress it, type: tar xvzf ooo2.4-xx.tar.gz That's it. Your directory should now be full of tons of files that were inside the compressed tarball that you downloaded. One of those files should be an install script (probably a file with the extension ".sh"... sorry, I'm not on a Linux box right now to check). Run it. OR, you use YUM or another rpm-handler to install all the OOo packages that you just unpacked into the directory you are currently sitting in. Which part of that does not work? I'm assuming that it's something in the uncompressing or the unpacking of the archive that's giving you the problem, and not the actual installation after you uncompress-and-unpack, because that's what the Subject of this message thread says... However, we do get people - both on Windows and Linux - who think that simply downloading is installing (it's not) or that simply unpacking a downloaded archive is installing (it's not). Separate issue. ALTERNATE VERSION Perhaps your version of tar doesn't support the z option to extract from zipped file. To do the operation in two steps, instead of one as above, type: gunzip ooo2.4-xx.tar.gz After some little amount of time, you should find " ooo2.4-xx.tar " in your directory, which would be the uncompressed tarball. That is, it's still a wrapped archive, but it's no longer squeezed. Now to open the tarball, type: tar xvf ooo2.4-xx.tar That should open the mess of OOo installation files into your directory, just as in the one-command example above. Either way, you still have to actually install, now that everything is open. The rpm command will do that for you, but might find yourself chasing in circles after some dependencies, or trying to install files in the wrong order. Since you have Fedora, I'm pretty sure you have YUM, so let YUM figure out the installation and dependencies. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 00:04 > To: McLauchlan, Kevin; users > Subject: Uncompressing a Tar.gz > Importance: High > > To Kevin: As a general method, what you have said might work, but I use > Fedora 8, which does not completely follow that method nor makes it > clear how to! When Fedora 9 comes out, it will have the official > modified version of OOo 2.4 as part of it, and that is what I am waiting > for. I do not understand how to do a tar.gz and have tried to follow all > sorts of people's instructions, to no avail. I do not use SuSe anymore, > but even when I did it was utter confusion to work with any tar.gz!! :-( The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
