Thread: error while flashing sailfish
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2013-12-13 , 21:45
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Originally Posted by n0zzz View Post
Hello.
i have tried to flash sailfish many times now but no luck.
starting flashing by opening terminal on n9 and typing:

tar --numeric-owner -xvjf sailfish.tar.bz2 -C /sailfish/

everything goes fine until this comes:

tar: can't open ' ./usr/share/man/man3/autodie: :exception: :system.3pm.gz' : invalid argument

i have installed everything what instructions says but still im getting this :/

hope you can help me
Two things that may or may not have some effect here;
1.) I always bunzip2 the *bz2 files on my PS and only transfer the uncompressed TAR files to device.
2.) I think you need to put the doubledash options after the file mode operations (read, write, check) so it would become like this:
tar -xvf sailfish.tar --numeric-owner -C /sailfish/