Unable to open tar.gz

[John L Fjellstad]

miner <joh_hunter at shaw.ca> writes:

> I tried both suggestions from this support list.
>
> Trying tar -xvvzf thunderbird-2.0.0.6.tar.gz was not successful.
>
> My Thunderbird.gz file is located on the desktop.
>
> I entered;  tar -xvfz /home/orest/Desktop/thunderbird-2.0.0.6.tar.gz
> Still no success.
>
> Is this the correct path and entry? I installed Ubuntu 2 days ago and have 
> not added any directories.
> New folders and files are on the desktop.
>
> I appreciate the help that you are giving me.

The command is tar xvzf <filename>

Note
f *must* be next to the filename
file *must* reside in the current directory (that is, the directory in
which you call the command from), *or* <filename> must contain the full
path of the file.

tar -xvfz will *not* work because tar will look at it as z being the
filename

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John L. Fjellstad
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