tar.tar files???
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 4:58 pm
Occasionally I have needed to download a file onto my Windows machine and then upload that file to my Linux box. The extension is tar.tar apparently this is a result of Windows explorer renaming the bz2 file extension.
Anyways, when I upload the file to my Linux server and I run tar on with
I get an error. I have Googled and found this thread and tried each step several times and continually get an error.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... lp-101628/
I am trying to get the Roadsend Linux binaries onto my Debian box from a Windows computer but I getting this error:
What am I doing wrong?
Anyways, when I upload the file to my Linux server and I run tar on with
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tar -xjvf filename.tar.tarhttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... lp-101628/
I am trying to get the Roadsend Linux binaries onto my Debian box from a Windows computer but I getting this error:
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my-server:~# tar xvjf roadsend-php-2.9.5.tar.tar
tar: bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
my-server:~# mv roadsend-php-2.9.5.tar.tar roadsend-php-2.9.5.tar.bz2
my-server:~# tar xvf roadsend-php-2.9.5.tar.bz2
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Read 3060 bytes from roadsend-php-2.9.5.tar.bz2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors