Unable to open tar.gz

[John L Fjellstad]

miner <joh_hunter at shaw.ca> writes:

> I am new to Ubuntu and am unable to open the Thunderbird.tar.gz file.
>
> At the terminal I enter; tar -xvfz thunderbird-2.0.0.6.tar.gz
>
> The response is;
> tar z: cannot open: no such file in directory
> tar: error not recoverable: exiting now

The f switch must be next to the filename

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