Hello,

its an install question!

this is a command to install a tar.gz -
"xzvf /home/bob/compressedfile.tar.gz"

but where do i type this code after extracting it?

thanks for the help anyone.

Wirelessly posted

No that is decompression or unzip. Same meaning.

you can either type the following command from the command line:
bob/Linux> tar xzvf compressedfile.tar.gz <-That is to decompress the files into a folder, then you cd into the newly created folder and you either read the README or the INSTALL file to properly make/configure for your system.

Or if you are using a GUI, then you can use an archive manager to extract the files to a location, then drop to the command line and cd into that folder and you either read the README or the INSTALL file to properly make/configure for your system.