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Unpacking procedure

If you downloaded LiDIA from our ftp-server crypt1.cs.uni-sb.de, then you have a binary compressed file with the name LiDIA.tgz. The suffix .tgz means tar-ed and gzip-ed.

As explained above, we assume that LiDIA.tgz already resides in a directory which we call UnpackDir. Notice that you need write permission for this directory.

If LiDIA.tgz resides in then UnpackDir = /usr/local.

If LiDIA.tgz resides in d: then UnpackDir = d:.

To unpack LiDIA , please execute the following steps:

U.0
[Change directory] Change to the directory UnpackDir, i.e., type in: cd /usr/local

or type in: d:
cd

U.1
[Uncompress] Uncompress LiDIA.tgz using GNU's gunzip  command, i.e., type in gunzip LiDIA.tgz or gzip -d LiDIA.tgz

This will produce the file LiDIA.tar on /usr/local or d:.

U.2
[Extract archive] Use the tar  command to extract the contents of the archive LiDIA.tar, i.e., type in: tar -xvf LiDIA.tar

This command e xtracts in verbose mode the contents of the file LiDIA.tar, i.e., it creates a directory: /usr/local/LiDIA or d:LiDIA.

U.3
[Compress] You will probably want to compress the archive LiDIA.tar. This is done by gzip LiDIA.tar

This will produce the file LiDIA.tar.gz.

U.4
[End] The unpacking procedure is completed.

*NOTE*

If you do not have enough free space, you can replace the steps U.1 - U.3 by the (more complicated) command gunzip -c LiDIA.tgz | tar xvf - or gzip -d -c LiDIA.tgz | tar xvf -


LiDIA Administrator
Thu Aug 10 16:41:08 MET DST 1995