From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 30 08:29:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA24476 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 08:29:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA24464 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 08:29:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yUvGE-00027Q-00; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:28:34 +0200 Subject: Re: Uncompresing a Linux archive In-Reply-To: <35485AB7.22FE@dfh.dk> from "Thomas L. Pedersen" at "Apr 30, 98 01:04:23 pm" To: tlp@dfh.dk (Thomas L. Pedersen) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:28:34 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Johann Visagie Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thomas L. Pedersen wrote: > > Have have a Linix RedHat compressed and tarred archive which I want to > uncompress and untar on a FreeBSD 2.2.5 system. However I get the error > "file format incorret" when I try tar -xvzf filename When you say a "compressed and tarred archive", what format do you mean? Is it a *.tar.gz or *.tgz or *.tar.Z, or is it maybe a RedHat package (*.rpm) file? If the latter, then you need to install rpm on FreeBSD - it's in the ports. It might also simply be that the file became corrupted somehow. -- V Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message