well, with gnu tar, the command is actually
tar -zxvf postgresql-7.2.tar.gz
with the '-' and the 'v' optional
The 'z' tells tar that the file is compressed.
Best regards,
Chris
At 09:57 -0800 02/07/2002, Phill Kenoyer wrote:
>Try: tar xfz postgresql-7.2.tar.gz
>or: tar xf postgresql-7.2.tar.gz
>
>If you use Netscape to download it, it is already un-gziped.
>
>If both of the commands above do not work, then you may need to
>re-download it.
>
>|On 020207 09:52
>|Simone Tellini (tellini@areabusiness.it) wrote the following...
>|
>|Hi there,
>|
>|I've just downloaded the sources tarball from
>http://www.postgresql.org/ftpsite/v7.2/postgresql-7.2.tar.gz
>|but I can't unpack it:
>|
>|postgresql-7.2/configure.in
>|gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
>|
>|is the file on the server corrupt or should I try to download it again?
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