On Saturday 21 December 2002 06:17 pm, you wrote:
Replace the 'z' with 'j' in the tar command like this:
tar -xvjf jigdo-bin-0.6.8.tar.bz2
The 'j' will filter tar's output through bzip2.
Rob
> Hi All
>
> Sorry for my lack of understanding but I just tried to install
> jidgo in order to download Mandrake.
> http://home.in.tum.de/~atterer/jigdo/
> http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/
>
> Problem is that when I download Jigdo it comes in a format of
> jigdo-bin-0.6.8.tar.bz2
> and when I do a
> tar -xvzf jigdo-bin-0.6.8.tar.bz2
> I get the response that the file is not in gzip format.
>
> Now being quite unfamiliar with all the possibilities of how one
> untars this file I would high appreciate a little guidance in how
> this may be accomplished.
>
> Thanks
>
> Frank
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