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1.8 Archives (Tar Files)

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Create tar named archive.tar containing directory.

tar cf archive.tar directory

Extract the contents from archive.tar.

tar xf archive.tar

Create a gzip compressed tar file name archive.tar.gz.

tar czf archive.tar.gz directory

Extract a gzip compressed tar file.

tar xzf archive.tar.gz

Create a tar file with bzip2 compression

tar cjf archive.tar.bz2 directory

Extract a bzip2 compressed tar file.

tar xjf archive.tar.bz2

INSTALLING PACKAGES

Search for a package by keyword.

yum search keyword

Install package.

yum install package

Display description and summary information about package.

yum info package

Install package from local file named package.rpm

rpm -i package.rpm

Remove/uninstall package.

yum remove package

Install software from source code.

tar zxvf sourcecode.tar.gz

cd sourcecode

./configure

make

make install

Hover over the Boxes then you can copy paste it in the console, everything will be done automatically!

Note that if you do it without SUDO you might not have permissions to execute a specific Command

Make sure to be in the User: "root" by typing su root / su - / sudo su

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