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I installed Debian 4.0 via the netinstaller and am using XFCE. I have no graphical archiving manager.
Code:
uholtz@deb-etch:~$ cd Apps/
uholtz@deb-etch:~/Apps$ tar -jxvf pidgin-2.0.0.tar.bz2
tar: bzip2: Cannot exec: No ...
- 05-08-2007 #1Linux User
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Can't extract tar.bz2
I installed Debian 4.0 via the netinstaller and am using XFCE. I have no graphical archiving manager.
How on earth can I fix this :o O_OCode:uholtz@deb-etch:~$ cd Apps/ uholtz@deb-etch:~/Apps$ tar -jxvf pidgin-2.0.0.tar.bz2 tar: bzip2: Cannot exec: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
- 05-08-2007 #2Linux Engineer
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It looks like you don't have bzip2 installed.
Code:apt-get install bzip2
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- 05-08-2007 #3Blackfooted Penguin
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It seems like the file pidgin-2.0.0.tar.bz2 cannot be found in the Apps directory. Did you save it elsewhere?
- 05-09-2007 #4Linux Guru
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I agree with zelmo. It appears that bzip isn't installed.
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Thanks, downloading bzip worked...never knew about it
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