On 29 Aug, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well I tried doing all those things, and it still wont work. I just get a
> gear looking icon where the gunzip file was. And if i try to un-tar that, i
> dont get anything. It says its not a supported file type, or something to
> that extent. I dont know what to do!
>
> thank you
> jerrud
I'm not sure what's happening now, but I'll bet your initial problem
was leaving the "f" out of the options for tar. A quick explanation of
`tar zxvf filename.tar.gz`:
The "z" option says to run the input through gunzip first.
The "x" option says to extract files from the archive (instead of adding
files to the archive)
The "v" option says to print out the names of the files you're
decompressing.
The "f" option says to use the following file as input.
I'd suggest downloading the file again, and starting over.
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-Matt Stegman
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