UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Whenever I try to uncompress file.tar.gz I always get message 'tar: directory checksum error'. I think because of this some of the directories might not be uncompressing properly. Why do I get this message? I do uncompress on UNIX Solaris 5.8. Oh, if I do the same thing on Fedora 3 everything works fine.

thanks,
webtekie

try this

$ gunzip file.tar.gz

that's what I am doing:
gunzip file.tar.gz

then I get file.tar, I do tar xvf file.tar file uncompresses and I get the message.

hmm...just tried to uncompress mysql tar file and everything worked fine. But just before I tried uncompressing Cocoon and Lenya and it gave me that message. May be downloaded file was corrupt?

Winzip will ALWAYS open a correctly formatted tar file. However, if there are errors in the file, only certian versions of winzip will work.

gunzip file.tar.gz
tar xf file.tar

also checkthis
tar xzf file.tar.gz

You need to download GNU tar, which is different from the tar that is packaged with Solaris 8.

got it. thanks!