-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I retrieved the Gatos drivers to allow me to do video capture with my ATI card. one of the files is km-0.2.1.tgz. I *THOUGHT* the .tgz meant that it was a gzipped tar file. So I issued the following: tar -xvzf km-0.2.1.tgz In return I got the following error message: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors How can I unpack the file. It shouldn't matter at all with tar, but I'm running 8.2 if you think it does. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+z47bjeziQOokQnARAqzrAJ9VEN6cZIEwlDnyLJQB31OA13iF2QCgjnxv dE8dyvZKOoP03jZfholkvsQ= =/ngG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Saturday 24 May 2003 11:25 am, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I retrieved the Gatos drivers to allow me to do video capture with my ATI card. one of the files is km-0.2.1.tgz. I *THOUGHT* the .tgz meant that it was a gzipped tar file. So I issued the following:
tar -xvzf km-0.2.1.tgz
In return I got the following error message:
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
How can I unpack the file. It shouldn't matter at all with tar, but I'm running 8.2 if you think it does.
Either the file is mis-named or it is corrupt. The thing to do is to try all other permutations of extraction. tar xvf would be the first. I doubt if it is a bzip2 file but you could try that. Assume it is misnamed... and try some things with it. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 05/24/03 11:48 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use in being a damn fool about it." --W.C. Fields
* Bruce Marshall (bmarsh@bmarsh.com) [030524 08:53]: ->On Saturday 24 May 2003 11:25 am, Michael Satterwhite wrote: ->> I retrieved the Gatos drivers to allow me to do video capture with my ->> ATI card. one of the files is km-0.2.1.tgz. I *THOUGHT* the .tgz meant ->> that it was a gzipped tar file. So I issued the following: ->> ->> tar -xvzf km-0.2.1.tgz ->> ->> In return I got the following error message: ->> ->> gzip: stdin: not in gzip format ->> tar: Child returned status 1 ->> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors ->> ->> How can I unpack the file. It shouldn't matter at all with tar, but ->> I'm running 8.2 if you think it does. -> ->Either the file is mis-named or it is corrupt. -> Or it was downloaded with Mozilla/Netscape which decompressed the file already. You should do this... file km-0.2.1.tgz I'll bet you it returns that it's just a tar file. In that case just do this " tar -xvf <file> ".. drop the z switch. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 May 2003 11:28, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Or it was downloaded with Mozilla/Netscape which decompressed the file already. You should do this...
You're absolutely correct. Are there *REALLY* people that would want this to happen? I guess there are or it wouldn't happen, but why? It's so easy to decompress that this doesn't seem useful. Thanks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+z6CWjeziQOokQnARAjiXAJ0ZnOPmquz+NxtRKBA8AMLgg2luCgCgiK0i j55Pr8gijOnMzDFMaMERipM= =BUCR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
* Michael Satterwhite (michael@weblore.com) [030524 09:43]: ->-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ->Hash: SHA1 -> ->On Saturday 24 May 2003 11:28, Ben Rosenberg wrote: -> ->> Or it was downloaded with Mozilla/Netscape which decompressed the file ->> already. You should do this... -> ->You're absolutely correct. Are there *REALLY* people that would want this to ->happen? I guess there are or it wouldn't happen, but why? It's so easy to ->decompress that this doesn't seem useful. You can go into the prefs and change this behavior. Take a look at the download dialogue when you download something. It tells the user it's going to open it with gzip. You can click an option to just save to a certain directory if you don't want to disable it altogether. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 May 2003 10:25, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
I retrieved the Gatos drivers to allow me to do video capture with my ATI card. one of the files is km-0.2.1.tgz. I *THOUGHT* the .tgz meant that it was a gzipped tar file. So I issued the following:
tar -xvzf km-0.2.1.tgz
In return I got the following error message:
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
How can I unpack the file. It shouldn't matter at all with tar, but I'm running 8.2 if you think it does.
There's a package on the CD's/DVD's that helps deal with these 'older' type of tarballs (can't remember what it's called, so you'll have to do some heavy-duty searching). But like Bruce said, tar xvf will work on it, or, just open konqueror in the directory it's at, right-click on it and choose 'extract here' (there's s couple other choices of 'extract' on the right-click menu also), it'll do everything but compile it and install it for you. John - -- I needed fresh bugs for my SuSE gecko, and Linux penguin. So I went out and caught this huge ugly blue and red and green and yellow butterfly. They won't need fresh food for 3 months now. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+z6p/H5oDXyLKXKQRAnZVAKCIikY3kFsvnKbRMtdaYK1od1iLjgCgqmIM 8NpXoZjvny+nJW8R2QBuBzA= =LxAX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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