How to install a tar gzip file

[DutchPenguin]

I'm using SuSe 6.4 and i'm wondering if and how i can install a debian package (tar gzip).

[pbharris]

hello,
type tar -zxf file.tar.gz and cd into the directory and check out the README
BTW the tar.gz (aka tgz) is a slackware package, debian has a .deb extension - most any package for on distro can work on another .

[hambleto]

If you want to just get the tar file out of the gziped file you can run "gunzip *.gz" and that will unzip the file and leave you with it in just tar format. (In case you save the tars like I do) Then you just untar with "tar -xvf *.tar "
Take care!
Ben

[linuxluis]

The tar and gz programe should be installed already. But I found out the fastest way to unzip and untar a file would have to be this way. But if i'm wrong or something wrong the way I do let me know

# tar zxvf < gz file >

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