Summary: Hi folks, About .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files and incremental flag "-g" and "-G" I have a directory, say dirA, of 5G approx in size including hundreds of...
Summary: Check out http://ubuntuguide.org for a starting place with (k)ubuntu. Make sure you add the extra repositories and you shouldn't have to worry about i...
Summary: Change to wherever you saved that file and run these comands at the prompt, bunzip2 MPlayer-0.90pre8.tar.bz2 tar -xvf MPlayer-0.90pre8.tar cd MPlayer-...
Summary: ok well let see here...i am trying to access my windows directeries and cant through redhat v9...i could do it before in mandrake bu not redhat...i di...
Summary: ok yes I am a nebie at this linux stuff but I am determined to get this down I have taken a .tar.gz file and unziped it to a .tar file and now I can...
Summary: Well under Window$ the best program you can find is at powerarchiver.com it is completely free, handles just about every format out there (tar, bz2, g...
Summary: Did u download the rpm or tar or bz2 file if u downloaded the rpm as root issue this command 1) rpm -ivh gcc.2.95.i386.rpm or whateva its called IF yo...
Summary: Usually, to install a source tarball, you unpack it: tar vxfz everybuddy.tar.gz or: tar vxfj everybuddy.tar.bz2 Then cd into the directory it creates:...
Summary: hello everyone i am having some trouble installing with a tar.gz. i uncompressed the tar.gz and did a ./configure inside the file. now what? how ...
Summary: I once had this problem back in Slackware 3.0 :). Installing programs in Linux is much different than installing in Windows or MacOS (Whichever you pr...
Summary: Could someone give me some help installing and unzipping .tar and .zip files. Everytime I try one of the tar zxvf commands, it says that it cannot fi...
Summary: I just came from crappy micro$oft and went to linux and thought it would be nice to download and install some games. The file was in a tar.gz file. Th...
Summary: I have a realtek AC97 AL650 on board sound chip and running RedHat 8.0. I downloaded a sound driver for linux. I extract the file and try /Make ...
Summary: What type of file are the programs? If they are .rpm, open Konsole (in KDE, you click the Red Hat and it should be under terminals, I don't remember ...
Summary: First, you have to untar it. To do that run one of these commands: tar zxvf filename.tar.gz or tar jxvf filename.tar.bz2 next, cd into the directory ...
Summary: ok yes I am a nebie at this linux stuff but I am determined to get this down I have taken a .tar.gz file and unziped it to a .tar file and now I can...
Summary: 1) What are they? .tar.gz files? tar vxzf filename.tar.gz That should create a new directory. Read the README and/or INSTALL file in this new director...
Summary: There are a lot of methods to install. But usually You get two kind of files: 1. which have extension '.rpm' In this case, use the program 'rpm' to in...
Summary: Hi there! I don't really know what you mean with "current directory" but I assume that you mean your home director, anyway this should work för any di...
Summary: I use MPlayer, so that's what I can help you the most with. Did you install the win32 codecs? If not, do. You'll probably want Quicktime and Real whil...
Summary: I don't think your modem will work even if you upgrade to Linux 2.6.2. Winmodem drivers are not included in the Linux source, not in 2.4 and not in 2....
Summary: Alright, So I finally was able to install Java. Thank god! I unpacked the file and everything and then changed my '.bash_profile' from: PATH=$PATH:$H...
Summary: I've downloaded and installed the newest version of SAMBA, but how can I tell if it's running? I'm running RedHat 7.2, and still can't stop or start ...
Summary: I have downloaded the ps to pdf converter PStill. It came as a .tar.gz file. I have extracted the file, but I cannot figure out how to install it. The...
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