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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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