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Untar a file

January 1, 2010 / posted in Fedora / No Comments

Short and sweet:

tar -zxvf foo.tar

this will extract the tar’d files into the current working directory.

Most tar balls will ask you to do something like the following in order to build the contents for your target platform:

./configure
make
make install

Some builds will require some kind of different variant of the above – for example the apache mod_jk build will ask you to run the following ./configure command with some additional flags:


For the impatient Apache admins:
$> cd native
$> ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs (or where ever the apxs/apxs2 is)
$>…

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