packages_format.md

Packages format cheat sheet

Table of contents

• Installation
• Compression

Installation

# .rpm pkg
rpm -i <pkg>.rpm
# from source
cd <pkg>
./configure
make
make install

Compression

# compress into .tar
tar cf <name>.tar <file1> <file2>
# extract from .tar
tar xf <name>.tar
# compress into .tar.gz
tar czf <name>.tar.gz <file1> <file2>
# extract from .tar.gz
tar xzf <name>.tar.gz
# compress into .tar.bz2
tar cjf <name>.tar.bz2 <file1> <file2>
# extract from .tar.bz2
tar xjf <name>.tar.bz2