Installation Problems

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Dec 17 14:55:45 UTC 2004


Max Reeves said:
[snip]
> I have a file called gDesklets-0.32.tar.bz2 and I tried to untar it by
> tar -xf gDesklets-0.32.tar.bz2, it shows me:
>
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive

That makes sense, because it isn't a tar archive.  It is a compressed tar
archive.  Either uncompress it first, or pass the appropriate option to
tar (in this case -j) so it knows what to use to uncompress it first.

-- 
William Hooper




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