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unzipping

Postby dragonfly » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:20 pm

Here I am again with another problem, I don't know how to unzip a package or a file. Will some one please explain to me how to do this.
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Re: unzipping

Postby Baphomet » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:26 pm

Well, what kind of file or package do you have? You may, or you may not, need to decompress it in order to use it. If it's a .zip or .rar or .7z type file, you can decompress it by right-clicking on the file and clicking on "Extract Here" or some other location of your choosing by using the menus provided. Decompression is native to Linux, I believe, so it's not as if you need to install a separate application like WinZip unless you decide you WANT to for some reason.

If you have something like a tarball (a file ending in .tar.gz or .tgz for instance) that's a whole different matter entirely and I'll let someone else handle instructing you on how to make and compile a tarball. I'm no good with the tarballs.
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Re: unzipping

Postby dragonfly » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:49 pm

Hi Baphomet, thanks for the rapid reply, I had no idea I could do that. When I was trying to install IE6 for linux I was getting a package "ies4linux.tar.gz" or something to that effect. I got IE6 installed but am not sure how I did it. I know I unzipped the package but I probably unzipped it unwittingly. I would like to know how I did it for future use. I'm a newbie as you have already guessed.
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Re: unzipping

Postby Baphomet » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:09 pm

dragonfly wrote:Hi Baphomet, thanks for the rapid reply, I had no idea I could do that. When I was trying to install IE6 for linux I was getting a package "ies4linux.tar.gz" or something to that effect. I got IE6 installed but am not sure how I did it. I know I unzipped the package but I probably unzipped it unwittingly. I would like to know how I did it for future use. I'm a newbie as you have already guessed.

Are you sure you didn't download a *.deb file? Had you downloaded a tarball it would have basically been "source code", meaning there would have been no installer like an *.exe file that you may have become accustomed to in... some other operating system. In an Ubuntu based linux distro, the closest thing you're going to find to an *.exe file, really, is a *.deb file which Ubuntu/Ultimate Edition can install pretty much effortlessly.

But, in short, I don't really know exactly what you did to get IE for Linux installed.
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Re: unzipping

Postby dragonfly » Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:32 am

Hi again baphomet, thanks for sticking with me. I went back into my trash and recovered the file I downloaded from 'Internet "Explorer for Linux" and here it is ----- <ies4linux-latest.tar.gz>----. I know I unzipped it but I did so many things I don't know how I did it. I was moving it around from desktop to documents to whatever I thought might work and finally I gave up and the next day while I was pugging away at it again a lost and found window popped up and there it was all unzipped. I am totally confused as to how it became unzipped.
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Re: unzipping

Postby cowboy » Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:33 pm

dragon..you might want to read this here.. http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/ at least it will give you some how to's.. ;)
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Re: unzipping

Postby dragonfly » Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:13 pm

Hi again cowboy, thank you very much, I have added the page you gave me to my bookmarks. I know I did do the extract command in desperation because I didn't know what to do and I was doing everything. I don't know how the package wound up in the lost and found folder. However I now know how to unzip a tarball now.
bapomal was on the right track, he just wasn't sure if it would work on a tarball or a .gz
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Re: unzipping

Postby vinca » Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:16 pm

dragonfly wrote:Hi again cowboy, thank you very much, I have added the page you gave me to my bookmarks. I know I did do the extract command in desperation because I didn't know what to do and I was doing everything. I don't know how the package wound up in the lost and found folder. However I now know how to unzip a tarball now.
bapomal was on the right track, he just wasn't sure if it would work on a tarball or a .gz
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tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
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