Unable to extract "tar.gz" file - please try for me
 

I can't extract this, so I was wonding if you guys would try for me:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/m...ar.gz?download

Thanks,
Riddick

gunzip <filename>
tar -xvf <newfilename> (the one created by guzip)

Where is your issue occuring?

hi there,
:confused: ... hum .. .. got from Paris mirror..
extracted flawless..
regards,
slackie1000

The console mode worked fine, thanks.

Ark is giving me the error:
"An Error occurred when trying to open the archive"

I can't think why. Does ark do it fine for you guys?

Thanks for the fast replies,
Riddick

Dont know about Ark--is it supposed to open tar files only or tar.*z files.
When you unzip at the command line, are you running as root?

I want to note that the above can be accomplished with:
and for GNU versions of tar, you can just do:

No, I'm not running as root, and it unzips fine