Brandin Creech wrote:
It looks like tar has changed its command-line option. It says on the GNU
page that as of Tar 1.15 (2004-12-20), the option was "renamed to
--strip-components". So, it depends on which Tar you are using,
Ahh!! I have tar 1.14 installed
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--- Dan McGhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> tar -jvxf ../essential-20050412.tar.bz2 \
> -C /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs --strip-components=1
>
> and tar complained. It even told me to check the "help." How dare it!!
> :-)
>
> So, I checked the help and changed '--strip-components=1' to
> '--st
I'm building Mplayer-1.0pre7 using the "stable" version of "the Book."
When I got to the "CODEC Installation" section I entered the following
command:
tar -jvxf ../essential-20050412.tar.bz2 \
-C /usr/lib/mplayer/codecs --strip-components=1
and tar complained. It even told me to check th
