A-Z help installing / extracting file

[phase8]

New guy that would be me trying to get testdisk working. I have this in my desktop folder testdisk-6.11.3. I need this to work (now you know things didn't go well) to recover photos on a usb external drive. Did I mention I was VERY new at Linux. Baby steps here guys I need the basics of extraction and install to get this up and running. I couldn't find any instructions in the readme file either.

Thanks all

[kmitnick]

did u extract it?
if yes access the dir of the folder
using

cd

command

then post here the output of

ls -al

[phase8]

cd command didn't do anything so lets get to extracting this baby

[kmitnick]

so it is not extracted yet?

[phase8]

it is not at this time

[kmitnick]

so you want to extract it first and you want to know the technique???

[phase8]

please I am all ears. Did I mention I was VERY new at this lol

[kmitnick]

ok first of all you need to extract your file
to extract a file you can do it manually by right clicking it and choose extract

or using command line
press Alt+F2 then type gnome-terminal and a command screen will pop up.

if the file's extension is tar.gz then use this command

tar xvfz testdisk-6.11.3.tar.gz

if it is tar.bz2

tar xvfj testdisk-6.11.3.tar.bz2

if it is other wise please tell me,
then you can access it with the cd command

cd testdisk-6.11.3

then post the output of

ls -al

waiting for your reply

[phase8]

cd ...thing and here is the output by the way thank you so much I am saving this so I can do this with other files

Out put is:
total 148
drwxr-xr-x 4 lancer lancer 4096 2009-05-06 13:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 lancer lancer 4096 2009-05-24 10:45 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 lancer lancer 216 2007-11-11 10:21 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r-- 1 lancer lancer 69788 2009-04-12 05:00 ChangeLog
-rw-r--r-- 1 lancer lancer 17987 2006-06-15 17:01 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 lancer lancer 413 2008-04-27 12:40 documentation.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 lancer lancer 4096 2009-05-06 13:33 ico
-rw-r--r-- 1 lancer lancer 117 2009-04-02 06:34 INFO
drwxr-xr-x 3 lancer lancer 4096 2009-05-06 13:40 linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 lancer lancer 12740 2009-05-06 02:51 NEWS
-rw-r--r-- 1 lancer lancer 1874 2006-10-25 04:40 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 lancer lancer 344 2008-04-21 12:32 THANKS

[kmitnick]

I am currently downloading it so that I can 100% support your installation please wait.