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2009-03-02
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Um, you should have just waited and not closed x-term, while you wouldn't see any change in x-term the tar.bz2 file was being uncompressed into a ext2 image file. There is a window that pops up after it is done downloading and expanding.
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2009-03-02
, 07:17
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Thanks, I'll just delete it and download it again. Thanks,
Mark
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2009-03-03
, 05:51
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Thanks D'ohboy, that worked and I have everything working again. dRIP, I have been unable to find a bzip2 package to install. Where do I get it?
Mark
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2009-03-03
, 07:12
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If you have Easy Debian, you have gtar and bzip2 already installed.
Also, if you update Easy Debian, you don't have to update the image file. The one you have is fine. It won't be changing soon, if ever.
Last edited by qole; 2009-03-03 at 18:58. Reason: oops, typo
Also, if you update Easy Debian, you don't have to update the image file. The one you have is fine. It won't be changing soon, if ever.
Code:
cd /location/to/untar gtar xjvf /path/to/tarball.tar.bz2
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Last edited by qole; 2009-03-03 at 18:58. Reason: oops, typo
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2009-03-03
, 07:22
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#7
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If you do ever need to reinstall bzip2 gronmayer shows that the Diablo maemo extras repo has bzip2 as well.
Catalogue Name: Diablo maemo extras
Web address: http://repository.maemo.org/extras/
Distribution: diablo
Components: free non-free
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2010-03-27
, 01:37
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#8
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or the short version:
bunzip2 -c archive.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf -
bunzip2 -c archive.tar.bz2 | tar -xvf -
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2010-05-14
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Hi, I am new here using N900. Just got my device. I am not familiar with Linux terminology (well, I am mot a person familiar with programming languages as well, I am just typical phone user). Thus looking at some of the posts with all the terminologies really get my head spinning some times. But I am trying to learn..
Can I know in step by step how to extract the bz2 file in X terminal. I tried to follow something what qole wrote:
cd /location/to/untar
gtar xjvf /path/to/tarball.tar.bz2
but I totally don't understand the above command, such as to/untar, and what is gtar and xjvf?
Is the tarball.tar.bz2 necessary?
Sorry, it may sound stupid to the expert, but appreciate if can help.
I tried this :
cd /MyDocs/
it went to the MyDocs directory. Now if my tar.bz2 file in this directory the file name is debian-squeeze-img.tar.bz2.
I downloaded this from my PC and copy to the N900 MyDocs folder.
Note : I already have the debian chroot, debian LXDE, DEB img install already in the menu (but without the image file, which I am trying to extract)
Please help
Thanks
Yoke
Can I know in step by step how to extract the bz2 file in X terminal. I tried to follow something what qole wrote:
cd /location/to/untar
gtar xjvf /path/to/tarball.tar.bz2
but I totally don't understand the above command, such as to/untar, and what is gtar and xjvf?
Is the tarball.tar.bz2 necessary?
Sorry, it may sound stupid to the expert, but appreciate if can help.
I tried this :
cd /MyDocs/
it went to the MyDocs directory. Now if my tar.bz2 file in this directory the file name is debian-squeeze-img.tar.bz2.
I downloaded this from my PC and copy to the N900 MyDocs folder.
Note : I already have the debian chroot, debian LXDE, DEB img install already in the menu (but without the image file, which I am trying to extract)
Please help
Thanks
Yoke
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2010-05-14
, 08:32
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Originally Posted by yokeloonlo
Okay, let's start from the top.
Hi, I am new here using N900. Just got my device. I am not familiar with Linux terminology (well, I am mot a person familiar with programming languages as well, I am just typical phone user). Thus looking at some of the posts with all the terminologies really get my head spinning some times. But I am trying to learn..
Can I know in step by step how to extract the bz2 file in X terminal. I tried to follow something what qole wrote:
cd /location/to/untar
gtar xjvf /path/to/tarball.tar.bz2
but I totally don't understand the above command, such as to/untar, and what is gtar and xjvf?
Is the tarball.tar.bz2 necessary?
Sorry, it may sound stupid to the expert, but appreciate if can help.
I tried this :
cd /MyDocs/
it went to the MyDocs directory. Now if my tar.bz2 file in this directory the file name is debian-squeeze-img.tar.bz2.
I downloaded this from my PC and copy to the N900 MyDocs folder.
Note : I already have the debian chroot, debian LXDE, DEB img install already in the menu (but without the image file, which I am trying to extract)
Please help
Thanks
Yoke
"cd /location/to/untar" just means to change to the directory you want to extract your file to - he's just used an example directory name that also explains what it's for.
"gtar" is the GNU tar application. You'll need to install the "tar-gnu" package to get this (this should have been done automatically when you installed the Debian chroot though). There's a separate "tar" program which is supplied as standard on the N900, as part of the base system, but this doesn't support all the options that the full GNU tar does.
"xjvf" are the flags you're passing to the GNU tar program. "x" indicates that you want to extract an archive, "j" means that it's bzip2 compressed, "v" sets verbose mode (so it shows you what's being extracted) and "f" says that you're specifying a filename to extract.
"/path/to/tarball.tar.bz2" is the full path and filename for the archive you want to extract. In your case this will be "/home/user/MyDocs/debian-squeeze-img.tar.bz2".
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