Either the easy way or the hard way. The easy way is "tar xzvf file.tgz." The "x" means extract, the "v" means to list the files as they are extracted, and can be left off if desired, the "z" means run gunzip on the file as well, and the "f" tells the filename. The hard way which would work on a system which has a very old version of tar that doesn't understand the z option would be gunzip -c file.tgz | tar xvf - This does the exact same thing.
