How do I start a tar.gz

[FLY_FISHER]

I downloaded a new flash player tar.gz
What is the way to start the installer in this tar,gz form?
I loged in as root, went to root's home, went to the root directory, then the home folder, then clicked on the flash player folder. There is a folder called flash player installer.
How do I start it from here? I was told you extract it here and it will start.
How do I start this extract?
Thanks

[ASCI_Blue]

By asking it nicely. ;D

okay okay, at a console type:


gunzip file.tar.gz(or .tgz) then type

tar xf file.tar

[BurntAsh]

cant you just do tar -xzvf file.tar.gz?

[Epsilon]

[quote author=burntash link=board=1;threadid=7159;start=0#66170 date=1054595898]
cant you just do tar -xzvf file.tar.gz?
[/quote]
Yup, they both work.

[Tyr_7BE]

http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/p...splay&id=1

Better idea -> http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/p...play&id=52

[Schotty]

[quote author=burntash link=board=1;threadid=7159;start=0#66170 date=1054595898]
cant you just do tar -xzvf file.tar.gz?
[/quote]

Thats exactly what I use.

[FLY_FISHER]

Cool, thanks guys for the help.
Where you said tar -xf file.tar.gz do I type the name of the file where it says file?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I just was not sure. ;D

[trickster]

Yes. if you download a file called goodfoodlist.tar.gz, and saved it as /tmp/goodfoodlist.tar.gz, then you would change directories to /tmp and do tar -zxvf goodfoodlist.tar.gz.

[Kernel_Killer]

Actually 'tar -xf <filename>.tar.gz will not work. When working with a gunzipped tarball, you need to do:

tar xvzf file.tar.gz (or file.tgz)

If you have a plain tar file (i.e. file.tar), then the 'tar -xvf' would work.

gunzip file.tar.gz(or .tgz) then type

tar xf file.tar

You can do this, but it's one more command from 'tar xvzf file.tar.gz'.