DM500 Do services .tar.gz files need "unzipping"

[marvo]

are the winrar unpacked .tar.gz files,,, loaded as that?? i.e. unpacked into dreambox,?

[HUPextreme]

ye u just place the .tar.gz filed into the dreambox which unpacks it itself.

[marvo]

yeah ty,,so thats the package,,Im learning,,whats in it ,,services files and bouquets??

[Curious123]

tar.gz is the linux equivalent to winzip. If you copy the file to the var/tmp folder on your dreambox and than on your remote press the blue button and select 'manual install to install the file onto your box.

[kagon]

Since we're on the topic, tar.gz is essentially a two step archive. The first is the tar (or so called tape archive; yes, the name comes from when tar was basically only used to make backup archives on magnetic tapes) and the second is compression of that tar with gzip. You can extract the tar.gz on your Dreambox (should you be so inclined) by running:

tar zxvf services.tar.gz

or to do it as a two step process... just uncompress the tar with:

gzip -d services.tar.gz

which will produce a services.tar, and extract the tar with:

tar xvf services.tar

Have fun. **