installing a tgz.tar package?
 

I'm fairly new to Slackware and have a couple of packages that I would like to install that are in tgz.tar form. How are these packages installed? I searched the web for answers but couldn't find anything on this specific pakage format.

Thanks!

Check this out
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ticle&artid=15

I can't see the packager's interest to tar/gz an archive and after retar it, it is curious...

Anyway try that :
tar x package.tgz.tar

then try :
zcat package.tgz | grep slack

If the output is positive, then it is a slackware package else, it isn't a package that you can install with installpkg

Thanks for the help!

The package that I'm going to attempt to install is swaret. Currently, since the swaret site is down, there doesn't seem to be a Slackware package of it. Just the tgz.tar package on the sourceforge site.

Thanks again.

Unfortunately, I still am unable to get it installed.

I followed the link above but when I ran tar zxf swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar, I received the following:

bash-2.05b# tar zxf swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
bash-2.05b#


I tried tar x swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar and received no error at all. I just sat there and did nothing.

When you did tar x swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar, it is supposed to untar the archive, so it populated the file : swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz

do a ls, you will see...

After that, install the package :
installpkg swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz

Cedrik,

Thanks for the help.

When I run tar x swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar, it just sits there and does nothing. Is it possible that it will take a while before it's completed?

Thanks.

ok...

What is the output with this command :

bash-2.05b# ls
swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar
bash-2.05b#

This is after attempting to run tar x swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar, which, never seems to finish.

Don' just use 'x' alone, use it with 'v' for verbose so you can see what is happening.
EDIT:
I just download swaret and used 'tar -zxvjf swaret.tgz.tar' and it worked it fine.

Hey I am sorry ;)

try : tar xf swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar

Unfortunately, it still won't do anything. After I run the tar command, it will literally just sit there and do nothing. I just end up doing a ^c to end it.

Thanks.

Sure ? read carefull :

Doesn't work

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