Uncompress command

BajaNick · 10-05-2003, 01:07 AM

Why is the uncompress command not working on my system? Please dont tell me i need the devel packages installed. Thanks

ehdwuld · 10-05-2003, 01:40 AM

huh?
uncompress what?

flamesrock · 10-05-2003, 01:57 AM

tar -zxvf

or

gunzip

they both work for different decompressions. Good luck

ivanatora · 10-05-2003, 03:23 AM

Paste here some logs. We can't help you if we don't know what exactly is the problem.

BajaNick · 10-05-2003, 10:44 AM

Ive downloaded a binary tar.Z and i found several websites that say to use the command uncompress before tar -xvjf. But ive never heard of uncomress before and im thinking maybe its an old command or something.

flamesrock · 10-05-2003, 12:15 PM

Then, in xterm, go

tar -xvjf <full file name>

ehdwuld · 10-05-2003, 02:19 PM

ok you can combine the uncompress and untar functions with the z
in tar

tar -xvzf <package name>.tar.gz

or
gunzip <package name> .tar.gz
then
tar -tvf <package name>.tar

BajaNick · 10-05-2003, 02:20 PM

Thanks