slack 8 issues

[paully1]

First off I wanna just say 'howdy folks', I havent posted in a long time hell most of you probably don't know who I am. Anyways, as usual windows is pissing me off so I decided to blow away half my windows drive to make room for slack 8. Been runnin slack 7.1 and love it! But I've had the following problems:

1. tar -xzvf gnomeicu-0.96.tar.gz give me the following:
gzip:stdin: not in gzip format
Child returned status 1
error exit delayed from previous errors

I dont get it, it always worked when i ran slack 7.1, is something different in bash or something? I tried a couple other tar.gz's with the same result.I installed allpackages

2. my term shows bash-2.05$ instead of my host name, and when i su it doesnt show root.
How can i fix it?

Those are really the only problems :) Love the look of gnome 1.4, its great!!!!

thanks
paully

[X_console]

1. See if it really is an archived and compressed file using the file command.

2. If you're running an xterm, run it as xterm -ls

[paully1]

Originally posted by X_console:
<STRONG>1. See if it really is an archived and compressed file using the file command.

2. If you're running an xterm, run it as xterm -ls</STRONG>

i did file licq-1.0.3.tar.gz and got
GNU tar file

did file gnomeicu-0.96.1.tar.gz and got
tar archive

why 2 different results? the tar -xvzf didnt work on either of them.

i never had this problem in slack 7.1

thanks
paully

[X_console]

Use this: tar xvf file.tar.gz
Does that work?

[paully1]

Originally posted by X_console:
<STRONG>Use this: tar xvf file.tar.gz
Does that work?</STRONG>
yes it did work thanks! didnt think about that option since the tar -zvxf always worked.

thanks
paully

[bdg1983]

The 'z' option is for gzip, so if you just have a .tar, then just leave off the 'z' from 'zxvf'.

Don't spread this around, but it's in the tar man page. ;)

[Strogian]

Am I missing something here? The file was a .tar.gz, not a .tar. Was the extension wrong, then?

[scanez]

Originally posted by Strogian:
<STRONG>Am I missing something here? The file was a .tar.gz, not a .tar. Was the extension wrong, then?</STRONG>
Yeah, once in a while you encounter a file with a misleading extension. Happened to me before quite a few times.

SC

[X_console]

In UNIX, extensions don't really mean a lot. Try this:

$ tar cvzf hello.txt ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile
$ file hello.txt
hello.txt: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified: Mon Oct 29 12:24:11 2001, os: Unix

[ph34r]

And some browsers (lynx, netscape) will un-gzip as it downloads, but leave the file extension the same.