Hello,
I'm getting bash:is a directory message every time I want to extract a package. What is this?
The file is in my downloads so I typed:
/home/liveuser/Downloads tar -xfz pckg.tar.bz2
Im running Fedora 15 live CD.
I've also tried su to root, and still the same.
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Jump to Posttry:
tar -xfz /home/liveuser/Downloads/pckg.tar.bz2
or:
cd /home/liveuser/Downloads tar -xfz pckg.tar.bz2
EDIT: If I'm not mistaken; because you are trying to extract a .bz2 archive, I think you need to use -xjf rather than -xzf. -xzf is for .tar.gz, -xjf is for .tar.bz2.
Alternatively, you could just …
Jump to PostIt sounds like the program you're trying to build can target several different platforms or architectures.
When you are calling './configure', the configuration is failing because it doesn't know which platform you are targetting. So you may need to pass some parameters to the configure command.Check for any …
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