From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 10:35:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA19237 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19153 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:35:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA07580; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:35:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:35:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Ian O'Friel" cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Right, I've got the right KDE files Now........... [Was: What to do with KDE....] In-Reply-To: <004901bda087$25d9c5e0$19e107c3@metallica> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Ian O'Friel wrote: > I wondered why those other files only created Directories.... > > I went along to the KDE site and this time it didn't moan about having 200 > Users already logged on which was the reason I went to the FreeBSD site > anyway.... > > I have know downloaded the Files : > > kdebase-beta4-1_src_tar.bz2 - Around 2.28Mb > kdesupport-beta4-1_src_tar.bz2 - Around 750K > kdelibs-beta4-1_src_tar.bz2 - Around 640k > > I definetely have the right files the sizes may be a tad wrong but thats > because I am working on the assumption that my memory actually works..... Yeah, those look right. > Now when I try to unTar them I get the message about them not being GZIP > when I use TAR xvfz and a message like 'Hmmm, Doesn't look like a > TAR file' when I use TAR xvf , I am taking a wild guess and > thinking that I need the thing mentioned on the FTP page (bzip2 or > somethin ?). > Yes. I highly recommend using the ports. You have to grab the entire ports tree to make it work since there are lots of dependencies, but it's a good grab. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message