This should help you http://how-to.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_untar_a_tar_file_or_gzip-bz2_tar_file ?? ! .gz is different from .bz2 ! -----Original Message----- From: freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces@lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of madan.mallikarjun Sent: 18 December 2012 15:47 To: freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] FreeSwitch hello all, thanks for the updates still there is a lot of confusion when it comes to the path's that has to be followed when the set up has to be installed . kindly guide me where i m wrong and let me know. 1. cd /usr/local/src 2. mkdir freeswitch : where i wish do the set up installation 3. cd /usr/local/src/freeswitch 4. wget the stable version path 5. now that i have the file in freeswitch folder freeswitch-1.2.5.3.tar.bz2 i try to tar it i get the following error for the command that i write 6. tar -xvfz freeswitch-1.2.5.3.tar.bz2 thanks in advance Madan Mallikarjun -- View this message in context: http://freeswitch-users.2379917.n2.nabble.com/FreeSwitch-tp7585608p7585662.h... Sent from the freeswitch-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com FreeSWITCH-powered IP PBX: The CudaTel Communication Server http://www.cudatel.com Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://wiki.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org