To extract a .bz2, you'll need to add a 'j' in the tar options: tar -xjvf 29207-aasaver-0.3.2.tar.bz2
Cheers, Frode On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Mark M Lambert < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:50:37 +0930, "Dale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi, > > > > it is explained on this page if you took the time to read it. > > > > > http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/KDE+Asciiquarium?content=29207&PHPSESSID=78551e6732845c0cc0ff47d4ebe89120 > > > > Regards Dale > > > > I took time to read that page, and no Dale, it does not answer Peter's > question about how to extract the archive. So for Peter, make sure you > are in the directory that has the archive file, then command you > need to extract it is: > tar -xvf 29207-aasaver-0.3.2.tar.bz2 > > .. then follow the > directions on the page that Dale linked to. > Peter, you will find that you use the tar command quite a bit if you are > extracting archives (at the command line), so it is a good idea to make > a note of it somewhere. I use Tomboy for keeping notes of handy shell > commands, not sure what the KDE equivalent is. > > Cheers > Mark >
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