[plug] tarballs

[Ian Kent]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Alex Polglaze wrote:

> G'day All,
> 
> Yes, I've read the manual.
> 
> Yes, I've looked up the archives.
> 
> No, I'm not entirely sure what I am doing.
> 
> I am trying to help my daughter install Thunderbird, (on a Linux m/c). We have
> downloaded the the file called thunderbird-1.0.7.tar.gz.
> 
> I know that it is a compressed file.
> 
> These things I know for sure.
> 
> This is the hazy bit.
> 
> To uncompress this file, the command that I should issue is;
> 
> tar -xvjf thunderbird-1.0.7.tar.gz

No. The j option is for bzip2 compressed archives.
Use z instead of j.

Ian