The TAR, or Tape Archive, file format was developed to simplify the process of storing and distributing multiple Unix operating system files. TAR files are uncompressed archives with the ".tar" file ...

I am running ubuntu 10.04. I am new to linux, and I've gotten most things that I need working, however I am having trouble installing tar.gz files. A .tar.gz is not an installer type, it is just an ...

February 28, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google This is a good question, as it seems like every other file you download nowadays is in a different compression ...