Re: unzip

[Sebastiaan <sebas@sacred-key.org>]

Hi,
you can install unzip (and almost every other application you might
need) with:
# apt-get install unzip

Under Linux it is more common to use 'tarballs' or bzip2. Tar is
standardly installed and you could use it the following way:

$ tar -cvzf homedir.tar.gz /home/myself
this (c)reates a new file
For unpacking:
$ tar -xvzf homedir.tar.gz

Winzip handles these file's well, so you can also send these to almost
every windoze user.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan


On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Alistair Whittle wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed debian GNU/Linux 2.2.  The install worked fine, and I
> am now trying to install another application which requires a file to be
> unzipped.   The unzip command for some reason does not register.   Looking
> through man pages etc, there are other like gnuzip, gzip, zcat etc, all of
> which say that to unzip a file, use unzip.  So, I have a problem.   Is unzip
> a separate thing which needs to be installed?   Is there an alternative to
> unzip?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Alistair C Whittle
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