tar zxvf and slackware 10.0

paul62 · 09-24-2004, 03:56 PM

I am having some problems using the tar command, When I try to sue the tar command to unpack this program which is on cdromthis is the output that I am getting. Could anyone please help me to get this right? I am using slackware 10.0. root@darkstar:~# tar zxvf'/mnt/cdrom/System/ClamAntiVirus/clamav-0.74.tar.gz'
tar: Old option `f' requires an argument.
Try `tar --help' for more information.
root@darkstar:~#

shilo · 09-24-2004, 04:08 PM

try:

Code:

tar -xvzf /mnt/cdrom/System/ClamAntiVirus/clamav-0.74.tar.gz

Don't know that the order matters, but this always works for me. Also, I added a "-".

msober · 09-24-2004, 04:12 PM

tar -zxf <filename> works just fine, add v if you want to see what it is doing.

www.google.com/linux <--- Lots of simple answers.

Shade · 09-24-2004, 06:49 PM

You left out a space. Simple syntax error.

--Shade

paul62 · 09-25-2004, 10:56 AM

Now that I have the program extracted what would be an example of nthe cd command to use with this program. I woudl really appreciate the help.

msober · 09-25-2004, 11:25 AM

I would assume that you cd to the dir it got installed into, then read the readme and install files. Most likely be ./configure then make then make install as root.