errors when attempting to unzip/install pinger

[jchilovich]

first, I'm new to splunk (and to UNIX actually). building a POC for mangement. Downloaded pinger couple of weeks ago but never installed. now I'm ready. see that there is an update. I attempted to download new version BUT do not get a tar file. Only 'spl'.
1) what am I doing wrong?
2) how do I install the spl?
3) get errors when unzipping current version. can you supply install instructions (command, steps etc.) please.

thanks

[Ayn]

The .spl file is really just a renamed .tar.gz file. To extract it, run "tar zxvf ". Place the extracted directory in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps and restart Splunk.