Installing Tar

[Mohamad Faizul]

tar xzvf file.tar.gz && cd file && ./configure && make && make install

On 12/14/09, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I tend to create a directory and perform one of the above actions from
>>> within that directory, because I find that some tar files just dump their
>>> extracted files in the current directory. This can be rather messy if the
>>> current directory contains a lot of files. Most tar files don't behave
>>> like this, but I like to play safe.
>
>> You can use the 't' option/flag of tar to determine if the archive
>> contains a folder and all files/folders inside it or
>> if it does not have such a directory hierarchy.
>
>> tar tvzf archive.tar.gz
>> tar tvjf archive.tar.bz2
>> tar tvf archive.tar
>
> And if does not have a directory in the tarball, you can create a
> directory into which to untar it
> mkdir dir4tar
> tar xvf archive -C dir4tar
>
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