I have downloaded wine for Slackware 10.2 from www.winehq.org/download

When I downloaded it from my xp comp It must have turned into a tarball somehow...

is there any way to convert it back to tgz?

A ".tgz" file is a tarball.

Do you mean the "tgz" or "gz" extension got lost? On your Linux system, see if you can untar it anyway using "tar zxf {filename}.tar" (or whatever the actual filename is).

Peace...

I'll try that...

what I mean is that when I downloaded it from winehq it was called wineXXXXXX.tgz

but after 10 minutes when I copied it to my Slackware system from a CD it was called wineXXXXXX.tar

I have no idea what have happend but I'll try the thing you suggested...

heres what I did...

In the dir where the wineXXXXX.tar file is located I ran this command:

tar -zxf wineXXXXX.tar


but that command only "untared" the file so now I have a new file in my dir which is called wineXXXXXX....

I want to make my wineXXXXX.tar file to a wineXXXXXX.tgz file (like the way it was on my XP system)


I read that using gzip on a tar package should turn it into a tgz package on Slackware, but thats not the case for me. All I get is a tar.gz package...





the reason why I want my Tar as a Tgz package is so that i simply can install the damn thing with installpkg command.. but since that doesnt seem to be possible can anyone tell me howto install the tar package??

Is the entry actually a file or a directory? A "ls -l" command in the place where you're running these commands would tell you that.

Also, run tar -t winexxx to see if tar recognizes it.

If the original file you downloaded is still on your Windows machine, transfer it to your Linux box and rename it from winexxx.tar to winexxx.tar.gz (or winexxx.tgz).

Once we know what tar zxf actually did with the tar file you had, we can better know what to do next.

Peace...

WinXP seems to like renaming or dropping extensions when downloading some filetypes, especially tarballs. You say you downloaded the .tgz file and XP changed the extension to .tar? You can simply change it back to .tgz and then use the package installer on it. Using tar on a tgz will simply unpack it and not install it.

On a side note, I find that compiling wine from source works much better (functionality and stability) than using a precompiled binary.

If it turns it into a tar.gz file just rename it to .tgz...the contents of the file hasn't changed!