recovering from stupidity tar

[Mike Burger]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, dbrett wrote:

> What I attempted and what I got were too different things.  Now I am in
> need of advice on how to recover from my own stupidity.  Below is the tar
> command I ran and the first output line.
> 
> 
> tar -cvf /usr/bin/kstars /usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kstars
> /usr/share/apps/kstars
> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

Well, it would seem that you inadvertantly overwrote /usr/bin/kstars with 
a tar file of the same name.

At present, I'd say the only option you have is to simply replace the 
kstars executable.  Did you install from some sort of RPM, or compile from 
a kstars tarball?

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