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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Originally posted by Cedrik Sure ? read carefull :
Code:
tar xf swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar
Doesn't work
Code:
root@localhost music # tar -xf swaret-1.6.2-noarch-1.tgz.tar
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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