Mandriva 2007

bobmac · 03-03-2007, 01:47 AM

Folks,
I've just downloaded a file called UNIXhelp1.3.2.tar.Z which is supposed to be a tutorial. When I go to try to decompress it I get the following message:

Could not open the file, probably due to an unsupported file format.
tar:/home/calban/Download/UNIXhelp* 1.3.2.tar.Z

I'm assuming that's because I don't have the appropriate decompression tool.

Can anyone help?

Bob

ernie · 03-03-2007, 03:01 AM

Most compressed archives end in .tar.gz I have never heard of a .tar.Z compressed file before. I opened my trusty KDE Control Center and navigated to KDE Components / File Associations. I searched for .tar.Z and it returned ark. Ark is the KDE archive file manager. If you use KDE as your Desktop Environment try to open the file with ark.

HTH,

Junior Hacker · 03-03-2007, 06:51 AM

You may also just try re-naming it to UNIXhelp1.3.2.tar.gz if ark don't do it, I've seen situations with my Mandrake where it would change the file extention (usually doubling the extention like .zip.zip), when downloading into FAT32 filesystem data partition.

reddazz · 03-03-2007, 04:47 PM

You can extrac *.tar.Z files by doing

Code:

$zcat somefile.tar.Z | tar xvf -