Unable to decompress samba-2.2.2.tar.gz

[Arnold Andrews X-324-4292]

Hi,

The problem is that you are trying to use gunzip into a pipe.  The behavior of 
gunzip as you are trying to use is would result in a file called 
samba-2.2.2.tar.  On the next command, you could then untar the result.  Another 
method that is sort of an "all in one" would be to use the "gnu" zcat to the 
pipe as you tried. Here are 2 different examples on how you can do it:

method 1:

  gunzip samba-2.2.2.tar.gz
  tar xvf samba-2.2.2.tar

method 2:

  /<path_to_gnu_zcat>/zcat samba-2.2.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
  
Hope that helpls,

Arnold Andrews


> 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
>