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Those are archives. You need to unpack them and see for instructions inside. Usually it's. Depending on what you want to install, you need also to install the build-essential package and -dev packages of the libraries which are used by the software. For a beginner, I suggest you strongly to restrict yourself to the available packages from Debian. The next step would be to search for already packaged software.
Firefox is most definitely available in the repositories and rarely needs to be built from source. If you want to install from sources by hand, the most difficult thing is often installing the right dependencies. If it fails with "checking for xyz: No", "xyz not found" or similar, install the package libxyz-dev on Debian based systems and try again.
If the package does not exists, you need either to find the correct package or to install the needed library by hand first. Sometimes you have to select a specific library version. In this guide you will learn how to extract or unzip files from tar. Gzip by default, extracts the file in the current directory. In this example the file is located in the Documents directory.
Below, we have used the file named test. Use the name of the file you want to compress instead. After zipping the file, enter the command ls to confirm that the file has been compressed. The output confirms that the file now has a.
When you run gzip on multiple files at once, the system generates a compressed copy of each file. This can clutter up a directory quickly!
It is an archive file with several other files inside it, which is then compressed. Improve this answer. Just to add to goldilocks brilliant answer, but not really worth a full post on it's own. With mc, it's then just a simple matter of highlighting the file, pressing F2, then selecting "expand" — shawty.
You can browse inside compressed tar. Ok, I was trying to do it step by step, i. Sorry, but thanks. I'll try this tomorrow. I'll also try the mc you're raving about. Now I'm confused. I haven't tried mc yet, but here is what I've been doing. What's going on? Show 7 more comments. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.
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