How to install TGZ files?

How do I have to install those TGZ-Files? I used the Package Manager but
no success. :frowning:

In article <sa6d2tcic0ol3rebnakbrahc0567cmhe3a@4ax.com>, Martin says…

How do I have to install those TGZ-Files? I used the Package Manager but
no success. > :frowning:

rename file.TGZ to file.tar.gz → gunzip file.tar.gz => file.tar
pax -f file.tar shows the contents … pax -rv -f file.tar installs.

Armin

In article <9068ao0q3k@drn.newsguy.com>,
Armin <Armin_member@newsguy.com> wrote:

In article <> sa6d2tcic0ol3rebnakbrahc0567cmhe3a@4ax.com> >, Martin says…

How do I have to install those TGZ-Files? I used the Package Manager but
no success. > :frowning:

rename file.TGZ to file.tar.gz → gunzip file.tar.gz => file.tar
pax -f file.tar shows the contents … pax -rv -f file.tar installs.

You can do it without unpacking
zcat file.TGZ | tar xf -

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Martin Brunner wrote:

How do I have to install those TGZ-Files? I used the Package Manager but
no success. > :frowning:

zcat file.tgz | pax -vr

leave out the -r to just list the archive, if you’re not sure where the
files will be unpacked

Rick Lake wrote:

How do I have to install those TGZ-Files? I used the Package Manager but
no success. > :frowning:

zcat file.tgz | pax -vr

I tried this with Gimp which should be made for QNX - but when running
the Install file I had a lot of error messages.

Is it possible to find any site that offers software as QPK/QPM-Files
which are easy to install?

Martin Brunner wrote:

Rick Lake wrote:

How do I have to install those TGZ-Files? I used the Package Manager but
no success. > :frowning:

zcat file.tgz | pax -vr

I tried this with Gimp which should be made for QNX - but when running
the Install file I had a lot of error messages.

Assuming you mean error message due to corrupted files…

I don’t know Gimp. But usually tgz files are packaged with tar (which is
a symbolic link to pax) and compressed with gzip. Hence the tgz
extension. If that was the case with your tgz file, then the file was
corrupted in the first place. However, usually zcat (which is a symbolic
link to gzip) and/or pax will detect errors and report them.

Things that could cause corruption is downloading using FTP in ASCII
transfer mode in stead of binary mode, or missing the last portion of
the file due to transfer errors. Another possibility is that the
original file on that site is corrupted. Perhaps the original file has a
checksum accompanying it. Than you can run “cksum file.tgz” to and
compare the results.


Is it possible to find any site that offers software as QPK/QPM-Files
which are easy to install?

I don’t know of any such site.

But I find tgz files just as easy to install :slight_smile:

Rick Lake schrieb:

I tried this with Gimp which should be made for QNX - but when running
the Install file I had a lot of error messages.

Assuming you mean error message due to corrupted files…

No, it was some compiling problem.

Is it possible to find any site that offers software as QPK/QPM-Files
which are easy to install?

I don’t know of any such site.

But I find tgz files just as easy to install > :slight_smile:

If I untar a file an see that it contains an INSTALL or make file i can
be sure that there will be error messages when executing them.

Martin Brunner wrote:

Rick Lake schrieb:

I tried this with Gimp which should be made for QNX - but when running
the Install file I had a lot of error messages.

Assuming you mean error message due to corrupted files…

No, it was some compiling problem.

Ah, I was mislead. I thought it specifically had to do with tgz files.

If the package doesn’t contain instal instructions, or the instructions
are incorrect, then this is a rather annoying problem which in itself
has nothing to do with tgz or qpk/qpm. I’m afraid you have to figure out
what is going wrong in the install script, or ask the person who
composed the package.

Is it possible to find any site that offers software as QPK/QPM-Files
which are easy to install?

I don’t know of any such site.

But I find tgz files just as easy to install > :slight_smile:

If I untar a file an see that it contains an INSTALL or make file i can
be sure that there will be error messages when executing them.

Rick Lake schrieb:

If the package doesn’t contain instal instructions, or the instructions
are incorrect, then this is a rather annoying problem which in itself
has nothing to do with tgz or qpk/qpm.

But qpk/qpm files should be made especially to work with a standard
installation of QNX RTP, shouldn’t they?

Martin Brunner wrote:

Rick Lake schrieb:

If the package doesn’t contain instal instructions, or the instructions
are incorrect, then this is a rather annoying problem which in itself
has nothing to do with tgz or qpk/qpm.

But qpk/qpm files should be made especially to work with a standard
installation of QNX RTP, shouldn’t they?

What I meant is, they are only a packaging form. But the porting has to
be done by someone in the first place. I assume that if you have a
qpk/qpm package, then some kind sole has already ported it (probably
from a tgz package…).

By the way, coincidence or not, I also suddenly need Gimp stuff now :slight_smile:
Last night I had a go in porting Netscape 6, and this is one of the
things I’m missing. Are you also doing the same thing?