Which is easiest way to run tar.gz file on Windows XP ?

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Hello all,

Can someone tell me which will be "Easiest" way to run/install tar.gz files on Windows XP.

I am aware that once can install Virtual PC/VM ware & install linux image, but just to test tar (in .py or .c) file of 20 kb, I do not want to open & start VM Ware from scratch taking huge amount of RAM. I do not want to shut down XP & reboot it with Linux CD.

Any solutions ?

U can unzip .tar.gz wid 7zip......but i dnt knw if it'll install on windows.

You can definitely extract it by using extraction softwares but you cannot install from them on windows. Linux & Windows are completely different OS's.

My query also got cleard......!!!

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aww I know that I cant install tar file on Windows

Winrar can unrar even gz (gunzip) files, but how do I test it on Windows ? Is there any third party software ? heard of Cygwin but its too big with all packages

Test in the sense? Execute?
I can't get you.

lol dude what r u talking abt ?? :lol:

Use Winrar.

It seems he wants an emulator for windows, just like wine in linux, but he is not able to get the word, "Emulator"
I'm not sure of it but this just might be the solution: *sourceforge.net/projects/line/

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Cool G5 said:
Test in the sense? Execute?
I can't get you.

Yes Very much,

I know that WinRAR can unrar gz file but how to execute for testing ?

Kind of emulator..

e.g. Test JAR file on computer using emulator on PC before transferring them to Mobile

Same way how to test tar file on windows ?

Ur query is already answered by Cool Buddy......

see his reply......

You can also try LINA : *www.openlina.com/

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Thanks Cool G5

Openlina sounds interesting.

Out of all these will it run an applications with .py & .c or I need to install extra packages ?

I think you will need to install the libraries or so. But I don't know since I didn't try it. Please try & let us know

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I tried with cygwin but it takes lots of space.

Download is small but it takes too much of time to install packages later.

Still looking out for something which can fit the bill of small size.

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Just sharing something which I found in my search

*wubi-installer.org

Give your opinions people

Wubi is a cool piece of software. I haven't tried it anytime though.

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@Cool G5

Please try & check.

Sharing one more with everyone - *www.andlinux.org

PraKs said:
@Cool G5

Please try & check.

Sharing one more with everyone - *www.andlinux.org

Aahhh yes Praks. This software was once discussed under Digit Magazine. I haven't tried it. Will try & get back with my review. :grin:

Thanks for pointing out.

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Thanks Cool G5

Please test & give your input.

PraKs said:
Thanks Cool G5

Please test & give your input.

Checked the software under Windows Vista Home Premium. For the start, I think andLINUX doesn't support Windows Vista. It took a long time for the installer to begin once I executed the installation package. Eventually, I got it installed & then rebooted my PC.

andLINUX sits under the system tray & presents you with Terminal, Thunar(File Manager), Synaptic, Pulse Audio Mixer(Which doesn't seem to work at-least with windows application). I played around with some commands & most of them produced the output I expected. But since andLINUX doesn't come with any applications it failed miserably while opening any files.

Whenever I tried opening a.jpg Image file, it used to open it under Mozilla Firefox installed on my system. Whenever I tried to play a .vob or .mp3 file, it used to ask me for a suitable player but the list of applications had none.

I feel this application isn't of much use. You're better off booting off a Linux Live CD if you require to work under Linux. Will play with the app for some more time before I remove it.

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Thanks Gaurav

Were you able to run any tar files ? I have few ending with .py & .c

Will those files work ?

PraKs said:
Thanks Gaurav

Were you able to run any tar files ? I have few ending with .py & .c

Will those files work ?

Na. You will need to install the requisite software's. You better not use this software. The software requires you to download all the software from web using the bundled synpatic manager which is useless. Instead one could easily install a linux OS. I wonder what were the developers thinking :shock:

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Sorry for late update, Been trying from 1 month

Start package is very less but then all softwares starts giving messages of installation of various packages.

Still looking for solution