Hate to bring this up again, but....

[stingray72]

When I download a tar.gz file, I need to do

tar -xfz file.tar.gz?

Is this the right order of the options? I have read the man pages on tar and know I ahve to use x and z and I think I've got to use f also? Forgive me, I'm partial to rpm's at the moment. Thanks

stingray72

[Tyr-7BE]

Yes, f must be included...for some strange reason. Otherwise, tar will sit there with its proverbial thumb up its proverbial arse doing nothing until you Ctrl+C it. I found that out after much headache :p And I'd recommend tar files over rpms...noooooooo dependencies there :D

[Ryeker]

tar xzvf myfile.tar.gz

[stingray72]

Thanks guys, worked like a charm....

I wish the search was a little more efficient. I can't get it to work sometimes. No complaints about the site though!

[bdg1983]

You actually didn't need to search. The answer is in the NHF here http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/compiling/softinstall.html