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Re: gzip problems...Newbie!



>        Also when I tried leap. I got error that it could not create
> directory or file. For leap I tried....

>       gzip -cd leap-1_2.deb | tar -xO
>       gzip -cd leap-1_2.deb | tar -xf
>       gzip -cd leap-1_2.deb | tar -xF install

>       help a newbie please.....

The leap-1.2.deb file you have is a debian package, so you can't use tar -zxvf
on it. Run dpkg -i leap-1_2.deb will install the package (or if you just want
to extract the contents, use ar (`man ar`).

Hope that helps,

Alan


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