# Extracting the file (very newb and quick question)

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/extracting-the-file-very-newb-and-quick-question/11989>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [January 29, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/extracting-the-file-very-newb-and-quick-question/11989 "2007-01-29T04:48:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![arya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/arya/32/496_2.png) [@arya](https://community.asterisk.org/u/arya)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/extracting-the-file-very-newb-and-quick-question/11989/1 "2007-01-29T04:48:10Z")

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Hello

I’ve always used linux with a GUI, but I don;t want to use a GUI since it will be a server.

Anyways I downloaded asterisk using the wget command but now I don’t know how to extract it, can you please tell me the command for extracting .tar.gz files?

BTW I’m using CentOS 4.4

Thank You

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**Author:** ![baconbuttie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/user_avatar/community.asterisk.org/baconbuttie/32/916_2.png) [@baconbuttie](https://community.asterisk.org/u/baconbuttie)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2007, 6:13am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/extracting-the-file-very-newb-and-quick-question/11989/2 "2007-01-29T06:13:05Z")

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it’s all in the wiki !!

`cd /usr/src
tar zxvf /path.to/asterisk.tarball/asterisk-1.4.0.tar.gz
cd /asterisk-1.4.0
./configure
make menuselect
make
make install
make samples`