untar transcode?

WilliamS · 03-12-2005, 11:09 AM

I've downloaded transcode-0.6.14.tar.gz from several sites, each time ark cannot find the tarball, tar zxvf will apparently untar it, but I cannot find the app afterward.

Using Slack 10.1

Advice, anyone?

samac · 03-12-2005, 01:16 PM

tar -xvzf transcode-0.6.14.tar.gz will normally put the expanded directory into the directory that the tar ball is in.

Code:

tar -xvzf transcode-0.6.14.tar.gz
cd transcode-0.6.14

# Then you usually do 

./configure
make
su
[password]
make install

# but check the readme and install files first

You then will be able to run transcode as required.

Samac

WilliamS · 03-12-2005, 03:57 PM

Um. The problem is that when I try that, I get this:

root@host:/home/william/temp# tar -xvzf transcode-0.6.14.tar.gz
tar: transcode-0.6.14.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
root@host:/home/william/temp#

acid_kewpie · 03-12-2005, 04:16 PM

well that's obviously not where you downloaded the file to... or that's not what it's called.

WilliamS · 03-12-2005, 05:09 PM

/my bad.
All it needed was a reboot, then installed as normal.

acid_kewpie · 03-13-2005, 03:03 AM

no, a reboot wouldn't have had any impact whatsoever. this isn't windows...

nukey · 03-13-2005, 04:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie
this isn't windows...

Ghi ghi

But you're right, was just the wrong filename , or the wrong dir.

[quote]
Shell> tar -zxvf foo.tar.gz
tar: foo.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

WilliamS · 03-13-2005, 06:50 AM

So then, why does ark tell me:

"An error occurred while trying to open the archive "?

Happens only with this package:transcode-0.6.14.tar.gz
and never happened with any pkg in 10.0.

acid_kewpie · 03-13-2005, 06:54 AM

because as we've said twice now, the file wasn't there.... there is no black magic that would make it work after a reboot.

WilliamS · 03-13-2005, 08:39 AM

It wasn't there for ark, but it was there for tar -xzvf.
Hm.