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#1 2010-12-09 23:39:49

Grundoko
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Registered: 2010-12-05
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tar -x never finishes. [Solved]

I'm a complete beginner to Arch. I've installed the system, and I'm trying to setup yaourt so I can install AUR packages more easily. The problem is, tar isn't working. I downloaded yaourt.tar.gz from the AUR, but when I type "tar -x yaourt.tar.gz" it simply shows the little underscore flashing like it does when it's waiting, and never finishes.

I've tried multiple times, (By going into another session with Ctrl + Alt + F2, and using killall tar, when I go back to my old session it says "Terminated" and it's back to normal, but with no files extracted in the folder yaourt.tar.gz was in.)

Anyone have any suggestions?

EDIT: Nevermind, I should have looked before posting a thread here. Googled it, and saw that I should have been doing tar -zxvf

Last edited by Grundoko (2010-12-09 23:50:42)

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#2 2010-12-09 23:49:17

skunktrader
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From: Brisbane, Australia
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Re: tar -x never finishes. [Solved]

does it work any better if you type

tar -zxf yaourt.tar.gz

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#3 2010-12-09 23:52:19

Grundoko
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Re: tar -x never finishes. [Solved]

Yeah, that works, I should have googled it first, as I just found the answer a couple minutes ago, and edited the thread as you were posting that.

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#4 2010-12-10 00:11:09

unilx
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Re: tar -x never finishes. [Solved]

u should use abs

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#5 2010-12-10 00:18:31

Grundoko
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Re: tar -x never finishes. [Solved]

What's abs? It's too short a query to search.

Last edited by Grundoko (2010-12-10 00:19:25)

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#6 2010-12-10 01:00:05

skunktrader
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Re: tar -x never finishes. [Solved]

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