help with gz files

brookes · 10-26-2003, 09:50 AM

Hi I need to unzip a .gz file for the driver for my modem, but lack some details. I know the command is 'gz xxx filename', but what are the letters i need to put after the gz please.

thanks friends
peter

david_ross · 10-26-2003, 09:57 AM

Try:
tar -xzf /path/to/myfile.tar.gz

_KDF · 10-26-2003, 11:13 AM

tar xfvz filename.gz

XavierP · 10-26-2003, 11:22 AM

_KDF,

You made a couple of typos:

Quote:

tar xfvz filename.gz

Should be tar -xfvz filename.tar.gz

The .tar.gz is the file extension. The v isn't strictly necessary, it just gives a verbose output. Handy if you want to see what's happening as the file untars.

slakmagik · 10-26-2003, 11:24 AM

If it's just gzipped, do 'gunzip file'.

Right?

_KDF · 10-28-2003, 03:30 AM

XavierP,

I only forgot the .tar.gz extension, my distro doesnt require a proceding dash "-" before xfvz.

slakmagik · 10-28-2003, 03:41 AM

But brookes didn't say anything about tar. And it's not the distro that doesn't require the dash, but the GNU tar command, itself, on any distro. Where'd he go anyway? Did he ever get the damn thing extracted?

_KDF · 10-28-2003, 11:39 AM

err, ye thats a good point he never did say it was tar'd.. just gz..

trying to trick me eh

XavierP · 10-28-2003, 03:19 PM

Tchah, takes the best minutes of our lives, sets us to mildly disagreeing and then disappears without a 'by your leave'. The youth of today, in my day blah blah blah

brookes · 10-28-2003, 03:52 PM

hi folks

'The youth of today, in my day blah blah blah' yeah i wish. im older than you lot put together.

Sorry i thought i had to wait till like tomorrow or next day for replies, didnt know you were all on the ball.

AND yes thanks i got the files extracted ok.

BUT then typing 'make' just throws up loads of errors so i am only a teeny bit further down this hard road.

peter

XavierP · 10-31-2003, 01:52 PM

What errors did 'make' give you?

brookes · 10-31-2003, 02:14 PM

Hi,
OK heres a brief run down on the output:
you should not include /usr/include{linux,asm}/header files directly for the compilation of kernel.
glibc now uses kernel header files from a working kernel. These files are glibc internal and may not match currently running kernel. They should only be included via other system header files.When compiling make sure to use the compiler option to use the correct include files.-I/lib/modules/'uname-r'/build/include instead of /usr/include/linux.

Hope this makes some sense to you.

peter