From: Ian Lambert via cygwin > ... > On a related note, using not ancient Red Hat 5.6 where the mirror is > stored, tar won't expand the Cygwin packages? > > $ tar -xvf units-2.13-1.tar.xz > > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > tar: Read 9640 bytes from units-2.13-1.tar.xz > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > $ tar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1 > > > but tar Packaged by Cygwin (1.29-1) will. >
I believe you need to tell tar if the file is in a compressed format. Not sure if your version takes the same options as Cygwin's tar 1.29, but there you would want to say (I suspect): $ tar -xvjf units-2.13-1.tar.xz --Ken Nellis
