Uncompress Utility...

cobolexpert · 08-27-2004, 12:11 AM

Seems to be missing from my FC2 install (as well as compress)... the help pages are there (man uncompress/compress works fine) but the actual files are missing. Can't seem to figure out where to get them from... any ideas??

Thanks.

rjlee · 08-27-2004, 03:46 AM

Most (if not all) standard utilities in Linux are actually a part of the GNU Operating system (Linux itself is technically just the kernel). Try looking at http://www.gnu.org/

You might also like to try http://www.freshmeat.net/ which is a good source of information on programming projects generally.

cobolexpert · 08-28-2004, 10:45 AM

I have a program, steam in this case, that errors out and says "sh: line 1: uncompress: command not found". Is there a way to make it so that when the program looks for uncompress it actually runs a different command? I have found quite a few compression utilities. I figured, since this program used it, that the command 'uncompress' would be a common thing and I could find it and download it. That doesn't seem to be the case.

Thanks,
JB (noob)

cobolexpert · 08-28-2004, 10:55 AM

Nevermind... I just put in "ln -s gunzip uncompress" and it worked fine. That was noobness.

BeetleFart · 03-05-2005, 06:26 AM

I am a complete noob with linux and am trying to learn just to do some things with CS:Source...
I have fedora 3 installed and when trying to install the dedicated server for Source I get the same error.
When I try to do a ln -s gunzip uncompress it doesnt work.
If I do that in the /bin folder it says permission denied.

Can I get detailed instructions on how to create the symbolic link for uncompress to gunzip (permanantly).

Thanks

PTrenholme · 03-05-2005, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BeetleFart
. . .
When I try to do a ln -s gunzip uncompress it doesnt work.
If I do that in the /bin folder it says permission denied.
. . .

You need to do this from a command prompt:

Code:

su
<enter superuser (e.g., root) password at prompt>
cd /bin
ln -s gunzip uncompress
exit

The reason that you get a "permission denied" message is because only "root" (by default, and I would recomend not changing the default) can make changes to the /bin directory.

Note that if you have ~/bin in your path (where ~ means your home directory) you can make the change for yourself alone by (NOT in superuser mode):

Code:

cd ~/bin
ln -s /bin/gunzip uncompress

To see what your path is, just

Code:

echo $PATH

Oh, if you're linking gunzip to uncompress, you might want to consider also linking gzip to compress.

BeetleFart · 03-05-2005, 08:23 AM

Thank you for the help..
WIll try it now.