Hey i have download a file that is a .tar.gz file. And when i try to open it, it says it cant be open. Somethin is wrong. How can i open it. It is the first thing i have downloaded on RedHat.?!?

in the terminal, or text prompt for the newbie go to the directory that it is in, most likely you downloaded it to your home folder, if not then you have to use the change directory command. cd /all the dir/till you/get to/the one you saved it too/ example but you should be there already: cd /home/username then to open tar.gz files: tar -zxvf filename.tar.gz it will open it to a folder with filename as its name. look around these forums before asking questions, the answers are here already. then you have to change the directory to the folder you just made to install the program if that is what it is. cd ./filename/ ./ since you are already half way there, you just have to add the new directory you want to go too. then read the readme file to see how to install.

Try: tar -xvfz OR: gunzip tar -xvf Should work...

Sorry... posted it at the same time as Response No. 1

This si wat the error says when i try to open it: Nautilus has no installed viewer capable of displaying "/root/srvx-1.1.2.tar.gz

in the terminal, or text prompt !!!!!!!!!!!!!

K i got it actually in the thingy. I put the file in the wrong folder. Now i have all the contents in the /home/josh folder. And nwo there are a bunch of things i see. I read the readme and is says to do somethin like ./configure or soemthin like that. But where and how?