Slackware 3.4 included bzip2, so I expect most distributions will have
it, and there should be a man page. AFAIK, a tar file is a tar file.
So, you can either bunzip it, then tar -xf the resulting tar, or use the
--use-compress-program bzip2 with tar -xf. Or
bzip2 -cd <tar.bz2file> | tar -xf -
The patch file _should_ have instructions at the beginning how to apply
it.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, S-Bayling wrote:
> Hi,
> I was reading about APM in linux, and I found I need a new
> kernel (which I have) and recent versions of halt. So I went to the
> suggested site and I found that I want ver 2.76, the files were in the
> following formats;
>
> sysvinit-2.75.tar.gz
> sysvinit-2.76.tar.bz2
> sysvinit-2.76.dif
> sysvinit-2.76.patch
>
> I know about how to unzip and un-tar the .tar.gz format, but what
> are the rest, and how do I go about using them? I assume I need to
> install the 2.76.tar.bz2 then patch it and then 'make' it, but how do
> I install bz2?
>
> Cheers,
> Simon.
>
>
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