On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 03:17:58 -0600, Sunny Sandhu wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>i'm not sure if this is the right email address to send a question of
>this nature to, i apologize if it isn't.
>
>I just downloaded the file jdk_1.1.6-v5-glibc-x86-tar.bz2 and i am
>unsure how to install it. I am new to Linux, and i am aware of the
>command 'tar zxvf filename', but i get an error message that it doens't
>look like a tar archive. i tried renaming to a .Z and .tar extension
>but it didn't work.
.tar.bz2 files are much like .tar.gz files only they are compressed using
bzip2 rather than gzip. bzip2 is rather new and not "fully established"
yet so many systems do not have this installed. Tar also does not directly
know about bzip2 (at least the versions I have)
So, you need to get BZIP2 to decompress the file and then run that through
"tar -xf". Otherwise you could download the .tar.gz version of the file.
It is the exact same tar file only with gzip compression. This normally
is very easy to extract since tar tends to know how to deal with this
if you use "tar -zxf" (the -z tells it to use gzip filter)
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------- http://www.nextbus.com
My place on the web ---> http://www.users.fast.net/~michael_sinz
