Re: Problems with .tar file

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Jose Luis Guerra dixit:
>     Hello, I write from Spain and I'm novice in Linux World.
> 
>     I have a problem processing  .tar file. When I write command "tar
> xvf <file>.tar" to extract the file qt-1_42_tar.tar, then computer
> return then next error message:
> 
>         tar: Hmm, this doesn`t look like a tar file
>         tar: Skipping to next file header
>         tar: Skipping to next file header
>         tar: Only read 1285 bytes from archive qt-1_42_tar.tar
>         tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I think it should be qt-1_42.tar (or qt-1.42.tar), not qt-1_42_tar.tar.  Try
renaming it                 ^            ^  ^              ^  ^^^^

If this doesn't work, may be it's a .tar.gz, rename it to qt-1.42.tar.gz, and
try:

`tar zxvvf qt-1.42.tar.gz'

>     Please help me and sorry by my bad English. Regards

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Hasta la vista,

Horacio.