of the tools are already included in the source packages. But
it's useful to know a bit about how packages that use these
tools work. A source package is distributed as a
- <literal>tar.gz</literal> or <literal>tar.bz2</literal> file
+ <literal>tar.bz2</literal> or <literal>tar.xz</literal> file
which you unpack into a directory full of the source files as follows:
</para>
<programlisting>
- tar xvfz gtk+-3.0.0.tar.gz
- tar xvfj gtk+-3.0.0.tar.bz2
+ tar xvfj gtk+-3.2.0.tar.bz2
+ tar xvfJ gtk+-3.2.0.tar.xz
</programlisting>
<para>
In the toplevel directory that is created, there will be