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How to Compress and Extract Files Using the tar Command on Linux

The tar command on Linux is used to create and extract TAR archive files. Run "tar -czvf archive-name.tar.gz /path/to/file” ...
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Installing a printer driver from source tar.gz

Epson's site refers you to Avasys for Linux drivers. On the avasys.jp site, they have .deb packages for a scanner program, but for the print drivers, they only have RPM or tar.gz. I extracted the PPD ...