Guest gegalla Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 I've downloaded a driver for an intel modem and it iis a tgz file. I've dowmloaded it in winxp and it reads 0 bytes is this correct. How d o I unzipp the file when I get it to llinux? I'm using mandrake 9 and kde 3 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Yes, if it is reading 0 bytes, then that is probably a bad thing. Usually tgz files will show up with a zip file icon. You may want to try and download the file using Linux. Anyway, in order to extract the file use the following command $ tar -zxvf foo.tgz where foo.tgz is the name of the file. You will need to do this from the command line. Otherwise, simply right click on the file and say extract here. This should also extract the file for you. tgz files are very similiar to zip files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 A zero download means just that ZERO! No data was saved on the hard drive. Either the download was interrupted, or it didn't copy from a temporary location, or the file was not closed properly. Have to do it again.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 If you don't want the command line the gui way is a utility/app such as file-roller (gtk), Ark (qt), gnozip (gtk). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gegalla Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Thanks for the replys. Stangest thing,, two times I download the tar file from intel ftp servers and get an icon but no data, the third time I do it the file downloads properly. So I've gottten ithe file into linux and have been able to extract it using ark. The extracted files have a readme file which I have been able to read in kwrite. The installation process appears to be in command lline form. Is there another way to install not using command line? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Is there another way to install not using command line?Not for a tgz, or tar.gz, only for rpms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 gegalla, don't be scare, sooner or later you'll have to deal with command line :lol: then you'll see what makes GNU/Linux (*nix) so great!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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