Re: Is gzip broken on woody ?
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Jason Harris wrote:
> joker@marla:~$ tar -xzvf
> tar: option requires an argument -- f
> Try `tar --help' for more information.
> joker@marla:~$ tar -xzvf mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz
>
> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> joker@marla:~$ gunzip mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-0.9.4-installer.tar.gz
Read the error messages. The file is not in gzip format. It's just named
.gz. Try just tar xvf.
-jwb
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