[Techtalk] tar files

[WeeBit]

I don't know how this happen but after I got it on cd then switched it to my Linux box then copied over, it turned into a tar.tar file.  So I just used tar xjfv thunderbird-0.5-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.tar  and it extracted.   Now that it is extracted on my pc do I need to do anything else?  Cause if that is it, that sure was easy.  
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Cindy Wong 
  To: WeeBit 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:19 AM
  Subject: Re: [Techtalk] tar files


  bz2 is bzip2.  If you're using a linux distro from recent years, you
  almost definitely have the necessary libraries _and_ a version of GNU tar
  supporting it installed.  You can use

    tar xjfv somefile.tar.bz2 

  to extract the file.  There is a (slim) possibility your tar will
  complain about the "j" option.  In that case, bunzip2 is probably the app
  you're looking for to decompress the file into a tar archive.  (I'm not
  entirely sure the app is "bunzip2"; "man bzip2" and/or "man -k bzip2"
  will probably be more accurate.)

  Cheers,
  Cindy

  On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:00:34 -0500, "WeeBit" <ST0RMCHASER at earthlink.net>
  said:
  > Hello everyone.  I am new to this.  But right now I am downloading
  > Thunderbird for Linux.  The name of the file is
  > thunderbird-0.5-i686-pc-linux-gtk2-gnu.tar.bz2  I haven't messed with a
  > tar.bz2 file before.  I don't even know what the bz2 is either. The
  > others were all rpm  if I have the right name for it.   Is rpm right?  I
  > would like to install this tar.bz2  on my computer.  How do I go about
  > doing this?  I am running mandrake 9.1 under KDE.
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