[Gllug] Compiling Debian Woody (not)

Jonathan Dye jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com
Thu Jul 3 14:50:25 UTC 2003


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.

Perhaps xjf would work better otherwise won't tar try and open an archive
called j?

JD

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