Please Help !! - tar, gzip, etc.

[ou812]

Hello:

I have really tried to make tar, gzip, etc work. I have put many hours in on trying to make them work. :mad:

Would someone please help me get started with using them. Without being able to use them, I can not dowmload any programs that I would like to have.

I use tar like - tar -xzf <file.tar.gz> .
And some other combinations of these.

PLease help......

ou812

[z0mbix]

use tar xvzf foo.tar.gz and post what error messages are returned to the console. Is tar installed? :)

[i_like_peanut_butter]

Does the order of the switches matter?

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by i_like_peanut_butter:
<STRONG>Does the order of the switches matter?</STRONG>

i believe so , because sometimes i type them to fast out of order and it doesn't seem to work until i try it again carefully

[ou812]

Hello:

I did the 'tar xvzf zippi-1.3.tar.gz .

All it did was to list about ten files, including *.c , *.h , Makefile , INSTALL TODO , FEATURES , etc.

What do I do from here?? :confused:

I would certainly appreciate anyones HELP . :rolleyes:

ou812

[milanuk]

Originally posted by ou812:
<STRONG>Hello:

I did the 'tar xvzf zippi-1.3.tar.gz .

All it did was to list about ten files, including *.c , *.h , Makefile , INSTALL TODO , FEATURES , etc.

What do I do from here?? :confused:

I would certainly appreciate anyones HELP . :rolleyes:

ou812</STRONG>

Umm... I hate to be a smart ***, but have you tried doing an 'ls' immediately after this happens?

AFAIK, the 'x' means eXtract, the 'f' means from File, the 'z' means unZip, and the 'v' means Verbose. So when you do 'tar xvzf zippi-1.3.tar.gz', and it spews out a list of files, those are the files that it has just eXtracted from the Zipped File zippi-1.3.tar.gz. So my bet is that if you go to the directory that you did this in, and do an 'ls', you should either see about 10 new files, or a new directory which would contain the new files. Give it a try.

HTH,

Monte

[z0mbix]

Have a read of this NHF (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/compiling/softinstall.html). It'll be your best friend for a while. Also have you read the install/readme files?

[slapNUT]

All it did was to list about ten files, including *.c , *.h , Makefile , INSTALL TODO , FEATURES , etc.

Like milanuk said it's listing the files as it is unzipping them, if you ls you'll probably see a zippi-1.3 directory now you need to cd zippi-1.3 and pico README then pico INSTALL then probably something like:
./configure
make
su to root
make install