Newbie with archives :)

[Matches Malone]

tar and GZ R confusin me :P

I downloaded Opera browser, but dunno what ta do once I open the tar...

It seems to come out executable, so I tried extracting to folder OPERA under desktop.

Might be dumn here, but kin y'all help?

[m3rlin]

Hi, if you find a *.tar you can do "tar -xpvf <file.tar>, but sometimes they are like *.tar.gz, here you do "tar -zxpvf <file.tar.gz>.
you sayd that the opera seamed to you exe. I don't know if you know but *.exe don't run in linux. Check carefuly the files to download.

[Matches Malone]

Hi, if you find a *.tar you can do "tar -xpvf <file.tar>, but sometimes they are like *.tar.gz, here you do "tar -zxpvf <file.tar.gz>.
you sayd that the opera seamed to you exe. I don't know if you know but *.exe don't run in linux. Check carefuly the files to download.

Thank you for that info, and yes, I know EXE files are no good in Lin :)

[X_console]

To install opera (assuming it's called opera.tar.gz):

tar xvzf opera.tar.gz
cd opera
./install.sh -s

[Matches Malone]

Thanks, X_console !!! I need to read up on installing stuff hehe