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Old 10-29-2004, 05:23 PM   #1
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I can't decompress qt


The file is compressed in bz2.z, and ark says that it can't figure out how to decompress it, could someone help?
 
Old 10-29-2004, 05:30 PM   #2
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Could you post the file name verbatim?
 
Old 10-29-2004, 09:14 PM   #3
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i think Qt tarball is just tar.bz2
just use tar -jxf
from the command line
or change the name
it must have gotten messed up somewhere along the way
 
Old 10-29-2004, 09:19 PM   #4
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Re: I can't decompress qt

Quote:
Originally posted by bcf2
The file is compressed in bz2.z, and ark says that it can't figure out how to decompress it, could someone help?
What does
file <file-name> say it is?

And where did you get it?
To the best of my knowledge the trolls only
do tar.gz and tar.bz2 ...


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