Installing Tar

[Anthony M. Rasat]

Kate wrote:
>How do I install a Tar file, used terminal without any success.

Try: tar xfvz tarfile.tar.gz
Or: tar xfvj tarfile.tar.bz2
Or tar xfv tarfile.tar

Notice the extension differences. This assuming you want to extract tar file, not creating them.

Regards,

Anthony M. Rasat
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