Can enyone explain how to do this properly? I download files to install
manualy and the extracter unpacks them to who knows were. Do I have to
cut and paste make files to a terminal window? Any suggestions on
reading up on how to do this for newbies like me?
URL'S for tutorials would be great.

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wuberman <wuberman@ca.inter.net>:
>  Can enyone explain how to do this properly? I download files to install
>  manualy and the extracter unpacks them to who knows were. Do I have to
>  cut and paste make files to a terminal window? Any suggestions on
>  reading up on how to do this for newbies like me?
>  URL'S for tutorials would be great.

"Extracter?"

Given "blah.tar.gz" or "blah.tgz" using Gnu tar:

tar tzf blah.tgz

will list its contents.

tar xzf blah.tgz

will extract.  ALWAYS do tzf before xzf, as it might have absolute
paths (/bin/blah as opposed to ./bin/blah).  If it was compressed with
bzip, you'll want to use "J" as well.  "man tar"

Jar files: don't know, don't care.


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wuberman wrote:

>Can enyone explain how to do this properly? I download files to install
>manualy and the extracter unpacks them to who knows were. Do I have to
>cut and paste make files to a terminal window? Any suggestions on
>reading up on how to do this for newbies like me?
>URL'S for tutorials would be great.
>
>

To run or extract jar files?

To run (assuming Java installed and in your PATH) from directory in
which jar file located:

java -jar JARfilename.jar

To extract jar file:

|jar xvf /JARfilename

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tuto...atsnew/jar.html
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wuberman wrote:

>Can enyone explain how to do this properly? I download files to install
>manualy and the extracter unpacks them to who knows were. Do I have to
>cut and paste make files to a terminal window? Any suggestions on
>reading up on how to do this for newbies like me?
>URL'S for tutorials would be great.
>
>

To run or extract jar files?

To run (assuming Java installed and in your PATH) from directory in
which jar file located:

java -jar JARfilename.jar

To extract jar file:

jar xvf /JARfilename

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tuto...atsnew/jar.html

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wuberman wrote:

>Can enyone explain how to do this properly? I download files to install
>manualy and the extracter unpacks them to who knows were. Do I have to
>cut and paste make files to a terminal window? Any suggestions on
>reading up on how to do this for newbies like me?
>URL'S for tutorials would be great.
>
>

To run or extract jar files?

To run (assuming Java installed and in your PATH) from directory in
which jar file located:

java -jar JARfilename.jar

To extract jar file:

jar xvf JARfilename.jar

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tuto...atsnew/jar.html

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