Greetings Stuart.
Stuart K Laing wrote:
The subject line says it all I need some real step by step instructions here. I know where the file is and its name it is a tgz
if the filename of the file in question is in the form something.tar.gz or
something.tgz , then it is not exactly a tar archive . It is a tar archive that
has been compressed with gz ( that is what gz in tgz means ) , so in order to
untar it you have first to uncompress it .
The command that Scott Harris has just given you does both of these things .
You might want to read the tar man pages which describes things pretty well .
Kind Regards, Kostas
