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From: <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] grub problem
Date: Mon Feb  5 11:55:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010205115433.D11231@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010205114217.A11667@cvs.gentoo.org>; from pete@gentoo.org on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:42:17AM -0700

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:42:17AM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> >     Also, I am unable to decompress the stuff in the packages directory on
> >     the CD as they seem to be corrupt. Did nobody else come across this? I
> >     got the rc4_pre2 cd a couple of days after it was released.  I hope I
> >     was able to explain my situation. I will appreciate your help.

> The packages are all tbz2 files, which means they are compressed w/
> bzip2. You should use tar xjf rather than tar xzf to decompress them;
> if you're just trying to install the packages, use portage-merge
> <packagename>.tbz2 instead.

Actually, "pkgmerge" is the command he should be using.  Maybe I need to update
the docs :/ :)

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			



  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-05 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <LAW2-OE105X0FUUQRee00001301@hotmail.com>
2001-02-05 11:43 ` [gentoo-dev] grub problem Pete Gavin
2001-02-05 11:55   ` drobbins [this message]
2001-02-05 12:15     ` Abhishek Kumar
2001-02-05 11:53 ` drobbins
2001-02-05 12:10   ` Abhishek Kumar
2001-02-05 12:29     ` drobbins
2001-02-05 17:26 ` Bob Collins
2002-09-14 23:53 Burton Samograd

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