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2008-05-07 , 11:43
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#11
Hmm... I did a:

sudo gainroot
cd /
tar -xf /path/to/package.tar.bz2

and it worked for me. Are you running as root?
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2008-05-07 , 11:53
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Originally Posted by iliaden View Post
thanks...

but I am unable to extract them within the device. On my desktop (cygwin) tar -xvjf works, and from X terminal on my n800, it doesn't! any clue(s) why?

thank you
Get gnutar from Xarchiver repo. busybox tar was made by knobs and it doesn't support bzip (at least on my N800. Unless I replaced the stuff with coreutils... which I really hated).

If it's a bzip file, just do:
gnutar jxvf /path/to/file.tar.bz2
 

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2008-05-07 , 11:57
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nope:
$ sudo gainroot
# tar -xf /media/mmc1/My\ downloads/freeciv.tar.bz2
tar: invalid tar magic

the same result if for all the other files.

as user, it's not better:
$ tar -xf /media/mmc1/My\ downloads/freeciv.tar.bz2
tar: invalid tar magic


even better:
tar -xvjf /media/mmc1/My\ downloads/freeciv.tar.bz2
tar: invalid option -- j

I always thought that the -j means a bzip2 archive!!!

help please!
 
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2008-05-07 , 12:01
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I did say to get gnutar and use that instead. You also need bzip2 (available from the same repo)
 
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2008-05-07 , 17:07
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I apologize. I didn't use that method of installation. I just did a "make DESTDIR=...," then copied that directory to / on my N810.
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2008-05-07 , 22:52
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thanks to all.
gnutar worked.
 
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