Tip: Extract a tarball online without local saving

This method is more economical for you if you use a computer for which no sufficient space, or volume your hard disk is small, such as that found in EeePC.

First: You will know what is the format Tar ?

The name of this format is derived from the word tape archive, a file format used to archive files and is used with several terminations such as .gz and others in order to compress the files