tarball

[Daniel S. Haischt]

Leon schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the "tarball"?

for example that's a tarball:

/usr/ports/distfiles/samba-3.0.9.tar.gz

actually it is 'gzipped' to shrink its size.

> How can I extract it?

a standard tarball:

  > tar xpvf my-tarball.tar

a gzipped tarball:

  > tar xpvfz my-tarball.tar.gz

a bzipped tarball:

  > tar xpvfj my-tarball.tar.bz2

> Where I can extract it from?
> 
> Thanks,
> Leon.
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