Re: [newbie] tar and gunzip troubles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few games i want to unzip. They both have a *.tar.gz extentions. first i gunzip them, then i tar them so would end up w/ just the plain files. every thing goes ok till i un-tar them. in console, when i un tar them, the promt moves down one line, but doesnt do anything. i can hit enter, and the box will move down more lines. All i want is the uncompressed folder so i can compile the games! gunzip file.tar.gz tar xvf file.tar or tar zxvf file.tar.gz -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] tar and gunzip troubles
add a v to your command line, tar xv file.tar even better yet, tar xvz file.tar.gz or man tar ;) On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few games i want to unzip. They both have a *.tar.gz extentions. first i gunzip them, then i tar them so would end up w/ just the plain files. every thing goes ok till i un-tar them. in console, when i un tar them, the promt moves down one line, but doesnt do anything. i can hit enter, and the box will move down more lines. All i want is the uncompressed folder so i can compile the games! thank you jerrud -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
RE: [newbie] tar and gunzip troubles
Try doing it from a console, not the file manager window. tar xvfz filename.gz or, if you've already unzipped it tar xvf filename.gz Ken Wilson First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming') -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 5:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] tar and gunzip troubles Well I tried doing all those things, and it still wont work. I just get a gear looking icon where the gunzip file was. And if i try to un-tar that, i dont get anything. It says its not a supported file type, or something to that extent. I dont know what to do! thank you jerrud
Re: [newbie] tar and gunzip troubles
On 29 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I tried doing all those things, and it still wont work. I just get a gear looking icon where the gunzip file was. And if i try to un-tar that, i dont get anything. It says its not a supported file type, or something to that extent. I dont know what to do! thank you jerrud I'm not sure what's happening now, but I'll bet your initial problem was leaving the "f" out of the options for tar. A quick explanation of `tar zxvf filename.tar.gz`: The "z" option says to run the input through gunzip first. The "x" option says to extract files from the archive (instead of adding files to the archive) The "v" option says to print out the names of the files you're decompressing. The "f" option says to use the following file as input. I'd suggest downloading the file again, and starting over. -- -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Re: [newbie] tar and gunzip troubles ]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I tried doing all those things, and it still wont work. I just get a gear looking icon where the gunzip file was. And if i try to un-tar that, i dont get anything. It says its not a supported file type, or something to that extent. I dont know what to do! thank you jerrud = Have you tried clicking on that "gear looking icon"? Those "gears" are usually executables. HTH, Mike ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] tar and gunzip troubles - Solution Found!
Well here is how I fixed my problem. After I un-gunzipped the file, it became unknown to what the type of file was. So, in the properties window, i slapped a .tar extention on the file, and un tar`ed it from the terminal window. worked like a charm! hurray :) jerrud
