Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:28:34 +0200 (SAT) From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: tlp@dfh.dk (Thomas L. Pedersen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uncompresing a Linux archive Message-ID: <E0yUvGE-00027Q-00@ns.cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <35485AB7.22FE@dfh.dk> from "Thomas L. Pedersen" at "Apr 30, 98 01:04:23 pm"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Thomas L. Pedersen wrote: > > Have have a Linix RedHat compressed and tarred archive which I want to > uncompress and untar on a FreeBSD 2.2.5 system. However I get the error > "file format incorret" when I try tar -xvzf filename When you say a "compressed and tarred archive", what format do you mean? Is it a *.tar.gz or *.tgz or *.tar.Z, or is it maybe a RedHat package (*.rpm) file? If the latter, then you need to install rpm on FreeBSD - it's in the ports. It might also simply be that the file became corrupted somehow. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?E0yUvGE-00027Q-00>