June 27, 2010

help unzipping a tarball on my macbook?

I am trying to dl the newest version of qt and I dl’ed the tarball from the site. when trying to unzip i get this error:

MyMac:~/Desktop$ tar zxvf qt-mac-opensource-src-4.4.3.tar

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Please help.
that worked, thanks!

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Comments on help unzipping a tarball on my macbook? »

June 27, 2010

Antony S @ 6:32 am

You’re trying to ungzip a tarball, so take out the z in your command, and you should be all set.

tar xvf qt-mac-opensource-src-4.4.3.tar

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