what program should i use with a gzip archive [duplicate]

Question

I am trying to download grub-1.99.tar.gz ,I do not know what program to use to open a

Gzip file. please recommend

Answer 1

What you actually have is a tarball, so you'll want to use the tar command.

 tar -zxvf grub-1.99.tar.gz

If you had a file that was only .gz (and not .tar.gz) you would use

gunzip grub-199.gz

Answer 2

Musher is spot-on. Here is what those tar flags mean (taken from man tar):

-f, --file ARCHIVE
       use archive file or device ARCHIVE
-v, --verbose
       verbosely list files processed
-x, --extract, --get
       extract files from an archive
-z, --gzip, --gunzip --ungzip

So executing tar -zxvf grub-1.99.tar.gz should extract everything from that .tar.gz. file, and list-out each file as well.

Answer 3

You can right-click it and select 'Extract Here.' Nearly every compressed file may be extracted using this method.

Answer 4

p7zip can handle most formats including gzip