Q. I’ve downloaded tar ball software but I don’t know how to compile the same? Can you provide the instructions for compiling a program? A. Many new users find it difficult to compiling programs in Linux. Usually following steps are involved: a] Download tar ball using wget b] Untar tar ball using tar command c] [...]
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Q. I have download files from the Internet. Each file has .gz extension. How do I open .gz files under Linux? A. You need to use gzip / gunzip program. It is a software application used for file compression. It is based on the DEFLATE algorithm, which is a combination of LZ77 and Huffman coding. [...]
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Q. I have downloaded firefox file from mozilla web site to my Linux desktop system. The name of file is firefox-2.0.tar.gz. How do I install firefox-2.0.tar.gz in Fedora Core Linux? Please provide me step by step instructions for the same. What about my old bookmarks and add-ons. I am going to lose them? A. Update: [...]
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Q. How do I open or uncompress .gz extension file under Linux or UNIX computer? A. The .gz file extension are created using Gzip program which reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). gunzip / gzip is software application used for file compression. gzip is short for GNU zip; the program [...]
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