Tutorials - How to decompress a .tar.gz file in Linux

[Dpaz2009]

many people got this wrong, you got it down to earth.. thanks bro

[hephzibam]

pls make a tutorial on how you did what you did eith your terminal aka. welcome victor. :D

[victorbrca]

@hephzibam Here's a couple of ways:

1- Enter text on /etc/motd (this is for all users)

2- Enter text on $HOME/.bashrc (for user only)

But do a read up before you modify .bashrc.

[victorbrca]

@1996quique You can use 7zip at home, but that does not necessarily means you could do the same on a lock down machine. The tutorial is to teach how to use the "normal" linux utility (tar) for achieving this.

[firemetal2007]

Why are all of these tar.gz tutorials on Youtube incomplete? Extracting is nice but you don't tell people how to install the extracted files. And btw, extracted tar.gz files will NOT contain a files that you can double click on and install like a .deb file does. You need to tell these people the next steps which is to to a ./configure then a "make" then a "make install". Extracting does nothing if this info is left out.

[victorbrca]

@firemetal2007 Please ready the title. It says "How to decompress a .tar.gz file", not "How to install a package from source in Linux". They are two different things.

[victorbrca]

You are missing the point.

[Stung5]

thank you for the brief lesson. Using the z switch caused an error, it appears that z was interpretted as a file name, not sure why. Omitting z seems to have worked though. Thank you!

[Gargintua]

thnx so much you clearly explained yourself except for near the end. cheers

[janiecarrasco]

wow- thanks...it worked!!