Most Distributions of TotalView are delivered via our web site as tar file distributions. Use the tar command to extract the TotalView files contained within the installation tar file. For example:
tar xvf totalview-version-platform.tar
tar xvf totalview-version-doc.tar
The CRAY distribution of TotalView is an rpm file. Please see the section Cray XT Installation for instructions how to install TotalView on Cray.