cant' get .tar.gz files to work

[mis]

I am trying to get xmms and gkrellm skins and having problems. I d/l them and put them in the correct directory and do this

tar xvzf filename (tried with -xvzf also)

everyone of them say not in gzip format. I was able to get lame (which was source) and a windowmaker theme but that is it. I tried untarring then unzipping but that got me the same thing.

Mis

[debiandude]

try:
tar xvf filename.tar.gz

[bdg1983]

You can also try to gunzip the file first, then tar xvf filename. Maybe that will work.

[X_console]

tar xvzf file.tar.gz should work. If it's not, then maybe it's not a compressed archive file. In Linux you can give anything a file extension but doesn't necessarily have to be that type of file. Use the command "file whatever.tar.gz" and see what kind of file it is. If it's just a normal tar file, then just use "tar xvf file.tar.gz". If it says it' just a compressed file, then just do "gunzip file.tar.gz"

[Dylan]

Try using archiver.