Simple question about .gz files & JDK

HI

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> I can figure out the tar command, but how do I deal with the gz
compression?

If you want ot decompress the archive, you can execute:

gunzip jre-1_2_2_013-linux-i586.tar.gz

this should decompress the file to jre-1_2_2_013-linux-i586.tar
and then you can dearchive it with the command

tar -xvf jre-1_2_2_013-linux-i586.tar

This 2 steps can be performed together with the command

tar -xzvf jre-1_2_2_013-linux-i586.tar.gz

and this will keep the original file (jre-1_2_2_013-linux-i586.tar.gz) too.

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> I am trying to install Oracle8i on my RHLinux box, a pre-requisite is to
> install the JDK 1.2.2 -
>
> I downloaded what I thought was the JDK, but I downloaded a run-time
environment
> file jre-1_2_2_013-linux-i586.tar.gz
>
> is this the same?

I am not sure, but I think it is not.
According to me JRE is the Java Virtual Machine that Netscape Navigator uses
to start applets and so on. I do not know if it can be started separately as
a
standalone application
But I am not shure