Handling Zip or Tars on Server?

[jjct1]

I have an update to one of my software packages. I have been using zip archive versions, ftping them up to the server and then using the File Manager in CPanel to extract the files. The problem I am running into is that this appears to work for fresh installs but for upgrades, where a current file exists, the unzip from File Manager appears to not overwrite the file if there is an existing file with the same name. How do others handle this?

In the old days, I would ftp a tar file to my home directory and untar them using shell access.

[jjct1]

Ok, figured it out. With the File Manager, Zip archives would not overwrite files but tar.gz would.

[midwest]

unzip -u will refresh and replace and create new if needed.