From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rick Marshall Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:26:20 +0000 Subject: Re: problems compiling players Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org "Kirchner, Eric C." wrote: > This question isn't directly related to sound, but hope someone can give me > a pointer -- I have tried to compile a great deal of players -- trying to > find one that will work with the libraries I have right now, but Many of > them TAR says are bad -- Its so many that I think I am missing something -- > I try to untar using > > tar -xvf {filename}.tar The sources are usually {filename}.tar.gz and can be untarred with tar xvzf {filename}.tar.gz (if you have gnu tar) but also make sure you issue the "binary" command to ftp before getting the sources. You may have corrupt files Rick > > > is there a different command line -- or are my tar's really corrupt...? > > Eric -- mailto:rjm@herzfeld.com.au <=> RICK MARSHALL <=> http://www.herzfeld.com.au/isl International Software Laboratories Pty Limited - Australia, New Zealand Footwear: Retail Management, Point of Sale, Wholesale, Manufacturing (-: All in Linux :-) (-: On the Web :-) (-: All in UNIBASE 5GL :-)