AMSN tarball..

$Linuxnoob · 03-26-2006, 06:07 PM

So I find the thing online, and use the command

<blockquote>tar xvf amsn_cvs.tar.gz</blockquote>
And I recieve this message...

<blockquote>
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
</blockquote>

Anything I can do??

Thanks in advance, infinitely kind linux community..

PS: I'm running RH9

cs-cam · 03-26-2006, 06:29 PM

It's not a tar archive as such, it's a tar archive inside a gzip, or something like that

At any rate here's what you were looking for

tar -xvzf amsn_cvs.tar.gz

nilleso · 03-26-2006, 06:30 PM

It's not just a tarball, it's a gzip compressed tarball. You can either use:
gunzip amsn_cvs.tar.gz ,then
tar xvf amsn_cvs.tar

or `tar -xzvf amsn_cvs.tar.gz` should work as well I think

cheers

$Linuxnoob · 03-26-2006, 06:54 PM

I do appreciate it!