[Gllug] Compiling Debian Woody (not)

[Peter Ball]

On 3 Jul 2003 at 14:35, Martin A. Brooks wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 14:06, Peter Ball wrote:
> 
> > tar xIf /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.22.tar.bz2
> 
> You're trying to extract a .tar.bz2 file, not a tar file.
> 
> > tar: Warning the -I option is not supported; perhaps you meant -j or
> > -T
> 
> tar xfj....
> 
> should work nicely.

Thanks Martin that's the business - obviously there's a typo in the manual with an uppercase I 
replacing a lowercase j

Now onwards until the next thing I don't understand :-)
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