Hi !
I had the same problem when i tried to install StarOffice. Marc Mutz told
me the solution, which is:
What tar command line have you used? This sounds _very_ strongly like a
missing f option, so that tar wants input from STDIN. Try
cd /opt; tar xfzv <full path of so.tar.gz file>
where 'x' means 'extract', 'f' means 'use file instead of STDIN (or
/dev/stx)', 'z' means 'use gzip to de-compress' and 'v' means 'be
verbose'.
I think you left the 'f' :-)
Marc
Still don't know what else can be untared besides a file, but it seems
that tar needs to know that it has to work on a file. As described above
should solve the problem.
Greez
Dave
>Hi folks,
>I've downloaded Star Office and I'm trying to load it but having no
>success. It a tar file and I'm typing tar -xv <filename>.tr, when I then
>press the enter key, nothing happens. Can someone tell me what I'm
>doing wrong?
>
>Thanks
>Chris
>
