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Re: [SLE] RH 8.0 ineptitude and tgz format.
- From: Curtis Rey <crrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 23:25:46 -0600
- Message-id: <200303222325.50479.crrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Saturday 22 March 2003 22:24 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 23 March 2003 04:54, Curtis Rey wrote:
> > My problem is that I have a tgz file and none of the commands to
> > anything. I have tried zcat <various options> winetools-0.2.2.tgz
>
> Which options, and what did you expect zcat to do? zcat will simply cat the
> tar file to standard output. Not really usable on its own
> tar xvzf would be the standard way of unpacking a tgz
Yes, that was the command issued but it tells me it's not in tar format.
> > and also all of these
> > with various pipes "|" such as zcat winetools-0.2.2.tgz | wc -c etc ..,
I have had some tgz the decomp with the zcat (don't ask me why - seriously, in
the howto of a couple of packages I've used :-/). I was ranting wildly at
this point. I tried ungzip with a |tar xvzf and various, also zcat was given
to check the file size against the website and this also failed. And many
other. I have had some definite problems as well with rpms in RH 8 as well,
sometimes it just sits there, other times, it will unpack/install fine... no
consistany. The damn browser in Gnome kept trying to save the file as
.tgz.html file ( :-/ ) and would give conflicting info on the file, i.e file
size and format.
I have noticed this problem after getting the updates using "up2date". It
also loaded 2 more versions of the kernel automatically - lol :p
tar xvzf gives me:
gzip: stdin" not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous error
gunzip gives a "not in gzip format" message
gzip -d gives the same message,
I manually used the ftp in command line and got the file to dl properly, but
still had problems unpacking it.
Funny part is that after reboot it functions properly.... go figure (shrug
shoulder). Still not really impressed with Redhat, It's a bit.. well..
quircky, kludgy, uhh... funky. I just don't get it what RH is aiming at.
But maybe they weren't concerned with me "getting" it in the 1st place.
It's just very weird to deal with the way RH has things laid out and the way
one must get work done. Maybe I'm to SuSE'fied or maybe RH is just weird - I
don't know. I only know that I have less problems with SuSE than other
distros. Mandrake 9.0 was ok, but updating the system is not easy either,
and no current KDE, or wine config/setup tool either, and Mandrake kinda
makes it hard to use their ftp site. Doing a wine setup by hand is not all
that much fun, and it's time consuming as well. So, far (I realize I'm
biased) SuSE is kicking some serious ass in many areas IMHO.
Cheers, Curtis.
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On Saturday 22 March 2003 22:24 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sunday 23 March 2003 04:54, Curtis Rey wrote:
> > My problem is that I have a tgz file and none of the commands to
> > anything. I have tried zcat <various options> winetools-0.2.2.tgz
>
> Which options, and what did you expect zcat to do? zcat will simply cat the
> tar file to standard output. Not really usable on its own
> tar xvzf would be the standard way of unpacking a tgz
Yes, that was the command issued but it tells me it's not in tar format.
> > and also all of these
> > with various pipes "|" such as zcat winetools-0.2.2.tgz | wc -c etc ..,
I have had some tgz the decomp with the zcat (don't ask me why - seriously, in
the howto of a couple of packages I've used :-/). I was ranting wildly at
this point. I tried ungzip with a |tar xvzf and various, also zcat was given
to check the file size against the website and this also failed. And many
other. I have had some definite problems as well with rpms in RH 8 as well,
sometimes it just sits there, other times, it will unpack/install fine... no
consistany. The damn browser in Gnome kept trying to save the file as
.tgz.html file ( :-/ ) and would give conflicting info on the file, i.e file
size and format.
I have noticed this problem after getting the updates using "up2date". It
also loaded 2 more versions of the kernel automatically - lol :p
tar xvzf gives me:
gzip: stdin" not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous error
gunzip gives a "not in gzip format" message
gzip -d gives the same message,
I manually used the ftp in command line and got the file to dl properly, but
still had problems unpacking it.
Funny part is that after reboot it functions properly.... go figure (shrug
shoulder). Still not really impressed with Redhat, It's a bit.. well..
quircky, kludgy, uhh... funky. I just don't get it what RH is aiming at.
But maybe they weren't concerned with me "getting" it in the 1st place.
It's just very weird to deal with the way RH has things laid out and the way
one must get work done. Maybe I'm to SuSE'fied or maybe RH is just weird - I
don't know. I only know that I have less problems with SuSE than other
distros. Mandrake 9.0 was ok, but updating the system is not easy either,
and no current KDE, or wine config/setup tool either, and Mandrake kinda
makes it hard to use their ftp site. Doing a wine setup by hand is not all
that much fun, and it's time consuming as well. So, far (I realize I'm
biased) SuSE is kicking some serious ass in many areas IMHO.
Cheers, Curtis.
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