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Faust:

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but insted of typing /home after words type in the next part of the address so for /home/unforgiven/downloads/limewire.tar.gz

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You can cd to a tgz ed directory?  More importantly you can execute a .tgz directly?    :confused:  

If this doesn't work try tar -xvzf fullpathtocompressedprogram (where fullpathtocompressedprogram is /home/username/file.tgz or similar) for .tgz files.  This will unpack it to a subdir of your current dir.  Then cd to that dir and read the readme - usually make ; make install as root will install a zipped app from source.  Or you could just click on a .tgz file from konqueror or whatever and have it opened in the compressor/decompressor.  (I use ark)

For .rpm files at the cli do "rpm -i fullpathtoprogram" or something like that.  Been a while since I used rpm so you may care to read rpm's manual...  Again just clicking on it from konq should open it up in an rpm gui.

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Please ignore this : "You can cd to a tgz ed directory?"  Must RTFP.  BTW you dont have to cd dir by dir -

ie instead of:
cd /home
cd unforgiven
cd downloads

you can do:
cd /home/unforgiven/downloads

[ August 09, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

M51DPS:

quote:Originally posted by Fury: Freedom Fighter:


i didnt even know that

why do i keep posting pointless posts???

oh yeah to pump up my post count
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You people should stop posting stuff to boost you post count . . . like I've been doing. But at least I have a question. There seem to be a bunch of different encodings, like GZip and BZip. And if I look at stuffit's DropTar they also have UNIX Compress and Stuffit for compression methods. What's the difference between them all?

[ August 09, 2003: Message edited by: M51DPS ]

Faust:
gzip | .gz files | basic, tgz still owns zip and rar | tar -x

bzip | .bz files | compresses a bit better than gzip | tar -j ?

unix compres | .Z files ? | not as good as gz / bz. don't use! | tar -nfi.  man tar etcetera, but I know it works under Linux / BSD (duh...)

stuffit | sounds like the companies own method, considering the name.  as such, probably non standard and crap.  

Unforgiven1:
it seems like as soon as I ask a question I figure it out by myself.

Limewire is .bin
here's how I did it.

su
root pw
cd home/unforgiven/
sh /LimeWireLinux.bin
it ran and then informed me I needed a Java Virtual Machine.  where the hell do I get one of those?

slvadcjelli42:
Sun Microsystems are the Java people, try their website, http://www.sun.com or http://www.java.com . I always get the different java-related stuff confused (virtual machine... runtime environment... scripting language... blech), but this might work: http://www.java.com/en/download/linux_manual.jsp (or  it might not, but it's worth a shot   :D  )

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