I have to install a software, but i can´t install because it´s compressed with t.Z.
file : file_name.t.Z
What can i do to solve this…
thks;)
I’m a newbie myself but if you want to extract a tarball go to the directory it’s in then use the tar command. Use flags xvzf. X for eXtract, v for Verbose shows file names are they are extracted, z lets command know it was compressed gz (j if it’s a bz) and f archives name is the same as the tarball.
So this may work for you
> tar xvzf archivename.tar.gz
>cd archivename
>./configure
>make
>make install
Thats as far as my knowledge goes
all the best
On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:36:01 +0000, casperg wrote:
> I’m a newbie myself but if you want to extract a tarball go to the
> directory it’s in then use the tar command. Use flags xvzf. X for
> eXtract, v for Verbose shows file names are they are extracted, z lets
> command know it was compressed gz (j if it’s a bz) and f archives name
> is the same as the tarball.
>
> So this may work for you
>
>
>> tar xvzf archivename.tar.gz
>>cd archivename
>>./configure
>>make
>>make install
>
> Thats as far as my knowledge goes
>
> all the best
“Z” as a suffix is typically Unix compress, different from gzip or bzip2.
Jim
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Thanks Jim for pointing out my mistake, cheers.
If it’s a tar.Z file then I guess you would use.
> uncompress archivename.tar.Z
pt-pt wrote:
> file : file_name.t.Z
>
> What can i do to solve this…
since this is your first post here i’ll say WELCOME and then assume
you have very little knowledge of openSUSE to say:
what do you want to install?
have you used YaST to search for and automatically install the
programs for you…saving you all the trouble of learning how to open
a tar ball, compile, etc etc etc??
just click YaST > Software > Software management and type the name of
the application you wish to install into the search box . . . and,
follow your nose…
alternatively, search here http://software.opensuse.org/search or
herehttp://packages.opensuse-community.org/
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DenverD
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Thanks for yours answers!
It´s a proprietary software to use in my studies. The instalation will be done by a graphical installer like MS Windows applications, so i think that i can´t uncompress pack by pack manually.
It´s recomended the instalation of gunzip. I searched, but it´s doesn´t exist for opensuse.
gunzip is the same as gzip?? I have gzip installed but seems that it´s not working.
gunzip is the unzip part of gzip package, since you have gzip
installed you can pack up a file/folder at the command line with:
gzip [options] [name]
and then unpack it with:
gunzip [options] [name]
see lots more info on both at the command line with these:
man gzip
info gzip
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DenverD
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True, but I believe gzip handles .Z files, and the -z option to tar just indicates to use gzip. I still think “tar -xvzf <filename>” would work, and actually I habitually get away with “tar -xf <filename>” even on gzipped tarballs, but I don’t think that is documented, so I wouldn’t recommend it. Tar is wierd in that the “-” is optional, I tend to use it.
Edit:
there is a -Z option to use the compress program, so “tar -xZvf <filename>” could also work.
Malcolm