On Tue, 06 May 2008 08:05:21 +1200 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. GNOME will do the same. Yes, one needs to be root to install. Basically, both in GNOME (using the File Browser) or in KDE (using Konqueror), you can right click a gzipped tar archive and it will give you a presentation similar to the one Windows uses get with winzip. The difference is that on Linux the utilities come with the distro, but on Windows, you need to download and install winzip if it is not previously installed by the hardware vendor. One very big difference between Windows and Linux is that on Linux, the X Window System sits on top of the OS as a daemon process, and it not an integral piece. Thus you can easily configure any Linux distro to run straight command line with no GUI, or even roll your own GUI. In the case of GNOME and KDE, they have chosen to add visual interfaces on top of the tar(1) and gzip(1) commands. But, even back a few years ago, Windows users had to use a command line utility to zip and unzip compressed archives. And, both Fedora and SuSE (and Ubuntu) can run a KDE, GNOME, or alternative desktop. -- -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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