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Re: Stupid Newbie Question - Install Netscape from download



On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 05:41:40PM -0500, Phil Beder wrote:
> I downloaded Netscape browser 6.2 from the netscape site in my windows
> partition as I dont have any means to browse the web in linux yet.  I tried
> to install it using dselect pointing it toward the directory in my windows
> partition with the compresed file in .gz format.  dselect did not recognize
> any dowloaded packages that were not in .deb format.  What should I do.
> 
dselect is only for debian packages.

To unpack tar.gz or tgz use:
`tar zxvf filename.tar.gz`


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