Just in case anyone wanted to know..... For some reason, of which I'm not sure, the problem was with the leap-1_2.gz file. It would not created the directories. After I manually made the directories gzip worked fine. I was logged in a root. So why the it did not created the directories escapes me....
Rod.. > ---------- > From: Shaleh[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 18, 1998 10:26 AM > To: Person, Rod > Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' > Subject: Re: gzip problems...Newbie! > > 1) use dpkg on .deb files. dpkg -I my_package.deb as root installs. > 2) gzip -dc my_targz.tar.gz| tar xvf - should work. tar does not need > the hyphen before its arguments. > -- > ===== > Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today >
