How to extract Gentoo files

raees · 04-27-2005, 09:25 AM

How to extract Gentoo files , I am using RH 3.0

RAees

slackie1000 · 04-27-2005, 09:33 AM

hi there,

what do you mean with gentoo files?

the source?? or an ebuild???

regards

slackie1000

jtshaw · 04-27-2005, 09:33 AM

What gentoo files do you mean?

Gentoo packages everything as either bzip2 tars or gzip tars. All you need it is tar and the gzip and bunzip2 programs to extract things.

Example
tar -xjvf blah.tar.bz2
tar -xzvf blah.tgz
tar -xzvr blah.tar.gz

slackie1000 · 04-27-2005, 09:38 AM

*slackie1000 celebrates!! finally faster .... *

and of couse after extracting the file, the procedure - for 90% of the cases:

Code:

cd /wherever_is_extracted
less README
less INSTALL
./configure
make
su
make install

regards

slackie1000

raees · 04-27-2005, 09:54 AM

I downloaded ntop-3.1-gentoo.gz ( for source ) and when i opened it in winzip the there is only one file "ntop-3.1-gentoo" with type 1-GENTOO file ..

WHat is this file and how can i get source files out of it

Raees

slackie1000 · 04-27-2005, 09:57 AM

hi there,

sounds weird... you opened the file with winzip??

where did you get this file??

are you under windows now? is it not a tar file??
what you see if you open the file with an editor?? ist binary or ascii??
more input please..

regards

slackie1000

Ynot Irucrem · 04-27-2005, 10:17 AM

i've had similar things happen and usually it's that you used IE to download it. IE can't handle two dots in a filename 'cause it's crap. so try renaming it to 'ntop-3.1-gentoo.tar.gz' and open it again.