On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, wrote:
> When I tried to tar a tar or gz file, it extracted some of the files,
> but also gave me some errors.
> The errors are all the same.
> Here is an example from my Acrobat Reader 4.0 Extraction
> It happens in other program extractions too.
> "tar: Ilinxr.install/install: Cannot chown to uid 1436 gid 100:
> Operation not permitted"
> what kinda of error is this?
> Is this supposed to happen?
> Thank you.
It's trying to change the owner of the file (that's what the chown command
does), but can't probably because you're logged in as a normal user. Try
untaring it as root.
-Tom
