On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:50:23 -0400 Jerry Feldman wrote: > On Mon, 5 May 2008 10:06:05 -0400 > "McLauchlan, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > Nearly every Linux distro contains tar(1) in its base system. I have > never seen a version of tar(1) on Linux that did not contain the "z" > option. The "z" option in conjunction with the "c" option creates a > gzipped tar archive, and when used with the "x" option unzips and > untars the archive. Additionally, gzip and gunzip are generally in the > base systems because things like man pages and log files are gzip'd. >
But KDE will do this for the OP who prolly doesn't like the CLI interface, by his initial description. Right click on the tar.gz file and find the correct option "Install" or "Extract" as needed. Will need KDE running as root to install. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
