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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:42:17AM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote: |
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> > Also, I am unable to decompress the stuff in the packages directory on |
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> > the CD as they seem to be corrupt. Did nobody else come across this? I |
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> > got the rc4_pre2 cd a couple of days after it was released. I hope I |
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> > was able to explain my situation. I will appreciate your help. |
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> The packages are all tbz2 files, which means they are compressed w/ |
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> bzip2. You should use tar xjf rather than tar xzf to decompress them; |
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> if you're just trying to install the packages, use portage-merge |
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> <packagename>.tbz2 instead. |
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Actually, "pkgmerge" is the command he should be using. Maybe I need to update |
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the docs :/ :) |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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