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Yeah, another newbie question. I'd be happy to look up this stuff on my own if anyone can link good documentation.
There is a theme I'd like to install called nigritude_ultramarine_xp.tar.tar. I found 'some' info on untaring but can't quite get it to work. I'm running Mandrake 10.
I saw the link stickied for .tar.gz but was unsure of a procedure for .tar.tar.
Any tips on this or links to good documentation would be greatly appreciated.
sounds like they tarred a tar file. To be sure run "file (filename).tar.tar", it should return something like (filename).tar.tar: tar archive. Then do "tar -xvf (filename).tar.tar" and it should extract a file called (filename).tar. Again do "file (filename).tar to make sure it's a tar file, if it is a tar file do "tar -tvf (filename).tar" To be sure untarring this doesn't overwrite any files you should create a directory "mkdir {directory name}" and move the tar file into it "mv (filename).tar {directory name}". Then "cd {directory name}" and untar the file "tar -xvf (filename).tar". now your file is untarred. NOTE: sometimes the creator of a tar file is not paying attention and will name the file *.tar.tar, when they meant to make it *.tar.tgz or *.tar.gz. So if, when you run "file (filename).tar.tar it returns gzip compressed file then you'll know it's a gzipped file and you need to run "gunzip (filename).tar.tar", if it returns "compressed file" run "uncompress (filename).tar.tar" , and if it says "zipped file" run "unzip (filename).tar.tar". Hope this helps.
NOTE: sometimes the creator of a tar file is not paying attention and will name the file *.tar.tar, when they meant to make it *.tar.tgz or *.tar.gz.
I think that is what happened. I remember it saying something about gzip or something to that effect. Kind of confusing running into this stuff when you've only been looking at it for a day or two, but I'm sure I'll work it out. I appreciate your suggestion and I'll give it another run tonight.
OK, I went back to the website and downloaded the file from a different mirror and rather than a .tar.tar the file was a .tar.bz2. I found this but it was relating to slackware...
Quote:
Yes. First you untar them with tar -xvjf <packagename.bz2>
Then cd to the directory that makes and run as normal user
./configure
make
su -c "make install"
Will that work for this file being a bz2, or is there another procedure for mandrake?
It may work, when you run ./configure the configure script will check your machine for sanity ( files and compilers exist where the script expects them). If anything is in error it will issue an error message and after it gets 2 or more errors it will fail. If it fails then it's probably slackware specific. I suggest looking for the program on www.rpmfind.com, you may find an RPM package that is Mandrake specific to use.
BTW, the .bz2 is just a compression tool it has nothing to do with the internals of the downloaded file, it could have just as easily been compressed using gzip, bzip2, compress, zip, winzip or any other compression tool.
woo hoo! getting it figured out. I renamed the tar.tar to tar.gz then ran gunzip on it. then made a directory, moved it then untared it there. slowly but surely the little train got up the hill
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