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Date:      Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:36:03 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        grilo@netcabo.pt
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fileroller in GNOME 2.5.4
Message-ID:  <1077143763.766.69.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <1077113767.16041.4.camel@grilo>
References:  <1077113767.16041.4.camel@grilo>

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On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 09:16, Jo=E3o Grilo wrote:
> I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1rc2
>=20
> Upon installing Fileroller, and trying to open a .tgz archive, it
> refused, claiming I had no gtar found.
>=20
> I went to the ports tree and tried to install archivers/gtar, with no
> success (claiming it already made part of the base system).
>=20
> Pav asked me to try something, and it worked.
>=20
> The solution, would be to create a symbolic link from /usr/bin/tar to
> somewhere within the path but being the destination "gtar".
>=20
> In my case, I did this:
>=20
> 	ln -s /usr/bin/tar /usr/local/bin/gtar
>=20
> (since gtar was supposed to be in /usr/local/bin)
>=20
>=20
> I'd love to submit a patch to automate your work, but my skills aren't
> enough to do so.

Whoops.  Looks like I misread.  There was a portability patch applied to
the latest release of file-roller that broke it on FreeBSD.  I've
committed a patch for the port, and notified the file-roller authors.=20
Thanks for the report.

Joe

>=20
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