Unable to decompress samba-2.2.2.tar.gz

[Marcel Kunath]

try

tar zxvpf smaba.......

>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm totally new to unix environment and I dont know anything about unix. I
> downloaded samba-2.2.2.tar.gz but I dont know how to unzip it. The following
> command was used the error messages.
>
> [root at singa public]# gunzip samba-2.2.2.tar.gz | tar xfvzp
> samba-2.2.2.tar.gz
> gunzip: samba-2.2.2.tar.gz has more than one entry -- unchanged
> gzip: stdin has more than one entry--rest ignored
> tar: 308 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> What could have go wrong? Please advice, thank you.
>
> Leong
>
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