Unable to open tar.gz

[Neil Cherry]

miner wrote:
> I am new to Ubuntu and am unable to open the Thunderbird.tar.gz file.
>  
> At the terminal I enter; tar -xvfz thunderbird-2.0.0.6.tar.gz

First type this:

file thunderbird-2.0.0.6.tar.gz

This will tell you what type of file. I hope you didn't use
Windows to download this file.

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