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Old 04-18-2011
command to run .tar file
How to install a file in unix with an extension .tar?
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Old 04-18-2011
tar tar is an archiver. It does not install anything. When you have a tar file, you can do the following:

List contents:
Code:
tar tvf my.tar

Extract contents:
Code:
tar xvf my.tar

You can do much more with tar; maybe checkout the man page for it.
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Old 04-18-2011
so with tar i can only list the content of the file? what if i have to install a file . what would be the extension.
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Old 04-18-2011
No. tar is an application that creates archives using the tar format. It's like ZIP or RAR on MS platforms. You don't install it, it's not a software package, and you can't run it, it's not an application. Use the second command zaxxon gave to extract (or "expand") the contents of the archive.
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Old 04-18-2011
Zaxxon & puldi thank u very much for the reply

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can i install file with extension .rpm?
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Old 04-18-2011
Yes, if it is built for your system and you have rpm (RedHat Package Manager) installed.
Code:
rpm -vi my.rpm

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