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Old 10-24-2007, 12:49 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Arrow Linux newb!! (more command line help/question)

is it possible to get a tar.gz file to work with my linuxXP which uses rpm? if so, what are the commands I need to type in to access my tar.gz file? (it's a new theme, and I'm newb to linux!!!
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Old 10-24-2007, 12:56 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Default Re: Linux newb!! (more command line help/question)

tar.gz is an archive, like a zip file. You should be able to use these no matter the package management system. To extract it via the command line do:
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tar -xvf filename 
xvf = extract, verbose, file

btw, the .gz on the end means that it's a tar that has been gzipped. You can extract tar.bz's or just plain .tar's the same way as above.
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root@localhost.localdomain[~]# tar -xvf 57439-H-K-guification.tar.gz
tar: 57439-H-K-guification.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
root@localhost.localdomain[~]# cd Desktop
root@localhost.localdomain[~/Desktop]# tar -xvf 57439-H-K-guification.tar.gz
tar: Read 2853 bytes from 57439-H-K-guification.tar.gz
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
root@localhost.localdomain[~/Desktop]#

surely it's something I'm doing wrong
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Link me to the .tar, please. I'll try it out.
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