installing a tgz.tar package?

onegear · 08-02-2004, 11:24 AM

Okay.....

the 'xf' did something a little different. Following is the output:

bash-2.05b# tar xf swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar
bash-2.05b# ls
etc install swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar usr

Just not sure what to do from here.

darin3200 · 08-02-2004, 11:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cedrik
Well, the man who made the archive must was drunk lol he named badly his file (which brings me into error, I thought of a tared slackware package)

Yeh, probably

We should have just saved some server bandwidth and taken this chat to irc

Cedrik · 08-02-2004, 11:30 AM

onegear, try the command I indicated on my edited post :

tar xjf swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar
installpkg swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz

onegear · 08-02-2004, 11:31 AM

will do.

onegear · 08-02-2004, 11:34 AM

Tried and received the following:

bash-2.05b# tar xjf swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar
bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
bash-2.05b#

darin3200 · 08-02-2004, 11:39 AM

onegear, have you tried 'tar zxvf swaret.tgz.tar' ? What's the output?

Cedrik · 08-02-2004, 11:40 AM

What the hell is this file ???

Last suggestion, it is a normal package with a .tar extension added so :
mv swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz
installpkg swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz

And put the link where you downloaded this file please.

onegear · 08-02-2004, 11:42 AM

bash-2.05b# tar zxvf swaret.tgz.tar
tar: swaret.tgz.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
bash-2.05b#

darin3200 · 08-02-2004, 11:45 AM

Here is the link to the file I have
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=220188
tar -zxvf worked fine for me on that file.

Crashbox · 08-02-2004, 11:49 AM

ok, guys, the problem is that the extra 'tar' on the end isn't actually supposed to be there. depending how the file was downloaded, this extension sometimes gets added. i had it happen when i downloaded a few packages with windows (i am required to use windows at the office). so, just rename the file by removing the '.tar' and then you should have no trouble using the 'installpkg' command to install it.

good luck

-crash

onegear · 08-02-2004, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cedrik
What the hell is this file ???

Last suggestion, it is a normal package with a .tar extension added so :
mv swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz
installpkg swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz

And put the link where you downloaded this file please.

I'll be damned!! That worked. Why was the package created this way?

After installing the package with installpkg, I moved it from /etc/swaret.conf.new to /etc/swaret.conf and configured it the way I like.

Everything is now working fine.

Thanks for all of your patience and help!

-chad

Imyrryr · 09-02-2004, 11:12 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cedrik
Well, the man who made the archive must was drunk lol he named badly his file (which brings me into error, I thought of a tared slackware package)

[edit]
Now I am thinking... It may be a bziped archive, so the command :

tar xjf swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar

should uncompress the slackware package

As cheezy as it sounds, all I did was $>mv goober.tgz.tar goober.tgz and then ran installpkg goober.tgz. Ran like a champ.

jong357 · 09-03-2004, 01:18 AM

Heh, heh.... Yea... It's a Windows thing. Actually, I think it's a WinZip thing. It does some shell integration and starts checking things you want to download. If it decides it should be something else, it's going to rename it without asking you.

Rule of thumb. Don't download anything with Windows. Atleast not a linux package... :-) tgz's are really the only thing that I've noticed it doing that with.... Still..... That's shoddy.

r_jensen11 · 09-03-2004, 06:57 PM

try renaming it to the same name, just taking the .tar off the end, then run installpkg