Re: [Pan-users] Re: compile ?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:09:10 am Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:27:10 am Travis wrote:
> > I have the pan .tar.gz on the Desktop but when I do the command 
> > "tar -xvzf ~/Desktop/pan-0.133.tar.bz2" from the
> > address@hidden:~/Build$ in Terminal I get "Cannot open: No such file
> > or directory" etc, etc.
>
> The z option to tar is for .tar.gz and .tgz files, which are
> compressed by the program gzip. You're using a .tar.bz2 file, which
> is compressed by bzip2, so you need the j option.

Doh! Of course Travis said he has the .tar.gz file. So the z option is 
correct, it's the file name that is wrong.



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Steven D'Aprano