Linux Training Materials - Extracting the tarball

The downloaded file containing all of our old LaTeX-based Linux course modules is called old_linux_course_modules.tar.gz and is a gzipped tarball.

To extract the PDF file that it contains you will need the gzip and tar utilities. These come as standard on most UNIX and Linux systems. To untar the archive simply type the following in the directory where you downloaded the file.

gzip -dc old_linux_course_modules.tar.gz | tar xf -

This will leave you with a file called old_linux_course_modules.pdf which can be viewed in, and printed from, Portable Document Format viewers like Acrobat Reader and xpdf