Uncompressing samba-latest_tar.tar

[Martin Geigl]

RATOAVINARIVO Elian wrote:
> 
> I have downloaded samba-latest_tar.tar from your ftp-site, and I tried to
> install it
> on my PC (SUSE 6.0 Kernel 2.0.36). When using tar -xvf samba-latest_tar.tar,
> I had an error : it seems not to be a .tar file .
> What can i do for uncompressing and installing Samba ?
> 
> Thank for all.
> Best regards.
Hi,

maybe the archive is zipped, but has no .gz at the end.
Try tar -xzvf samba-latest_tar.tar to pipe it through
gunzip.

Hope this helps
Martin
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