Forum OpenACS Q&A: Solaris 10 fails to unpack openacs-5-2-*.tar.gz

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1: Solaris 10 fails to unpack openacs-5-2-*.tar.gz
Posted by Robert Hammond on 02/08/06 07:11 PM
While attempting to unpack any 5.2 archive on Solaris 10 u1 (01/06) with the command:
gzip -d < $HOME/openacs/openacs-5-2-2.tar.gz | tar xvf -

the following error message occurs (many times, these are the last few lines of output):

tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file
x ././@LongLink, 106 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x openacs-5-2-1/packages/acs-templating/www/resources/xinha-nightly/plugins/ClientsideSpellcheck/lang, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
tar: directory checksum error

This error DOES NOT occur when unpacking on SuSe 9.x
2.4.21-99-default GNU/Linux

The openacs-5.1*.tar.gz extracts just fine on this version of Solaris.

Any suggestions?

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2: Re: Solaris 10 fails to unpack openacs-5-2-*.tar.gz (response to 1)
Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on 02/09/06 12:24 AM
You need to use gtar, the GNU version of tar. If you installed the Sun Freeware CD that Solaris 10 has as an option, it is in either /usr/sfw/bin/gtar or /opt/sfw/bin/gtar .