Decompressing

[Marc Powell]

Mwaniki jack <mailto:mwanikij at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I downloaded the nagios installation archive using WGET on a
> Linux/Gentoo server but I cannot decompress the file. The gunzip
> nagios-1.0.tar.gz command gives an error that the file is not a GZIP
> format. I have tried tar but I still get errors that Child status 1. 
> 
> Anyone knows how to approach this?

Run 'file nagios-1.0.tar.gz'. If it says it's 'text' or 'data' then you
likely have a currupted download. Try downloading it again.

If it says 'gzip compressed data' then try 'gzip -dc nagios-1.0.tar.gz'
or 'tar zxvf nagios-1.0.tar.gz'.

If it says it's a GNU tar archive, then 'tar xvf nagios-1.0.tar.gz'.

Other results will either be obvious or not.

--
Marc


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