Attention

GPU users: GPU nodes run EL9, while this documentation still reflects the EL7 software stack.

Run module avail on an EL9 login node, or within an interactive session on the relevant GPU type, to see the software available.

The documentation will be updated once all nodes have migrated to EL9.

Unpacking a tarball

Unpacking a tarball is straightforward and is achieved using the tar command. Typically tarballs will be compressed with either GZip (tar.gz) or BZip (tar.bz2) and can be decompressed into the current directory by using the matching tar command arguments.

For GZip compression the format of this command is:

[user@node004 [stanage] tarpackages]$ tar -xzf mytarball.tar.gz

For BZip compression the format of this command is:

[user@node004 [stanage] tarpackages]$ tar -xjf mytarball.tar.bz2

No example of this process is shown as the commands do not have terminal output unless there is an error.