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| newbiedude |
 Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 7:52 am Post subject: tar file on UNIX |
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Voyager
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hi all,
I am new to workflow installations on UNIX. I am trying to install WF3.4 on AIX and have download the .tar files.
- can someone explain what a tar file is, is it a zip file or somesort?
- can someone explain to me how to get the tar file going once placed on the unix directory? is there a unix command or something that I need to run to launch the install file?
thanks
-Nathan
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| vennela |
| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 8:28 am Post subject: |
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Jedi Knight
Joined: 11 Aug 2002
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Location: Hyderabad, India
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tar is tape archive
On a UNIX box you can say man tar and it will give the manual on tar or for that matter any UNIX command.
You can think of it as some kind of zip file for now. It is like any other archive command. like ar or jar
To extract the contents of a tar you must give
tar -xvf sample.tar
But what is your problem? |
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| newbiedude |
| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:39 am Post subject: |
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Voyager
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Thanks Vennela. I appreciate the info on the tar stuff. basically want to install the wf3.4 which is a tar file in form, on UNIX aix. i just wanted to know how i should go about unzipping so to speak the tar file. Another question is that once i untar it, can i then perform the smit or smitty? i looked at the install manual that you recommend, but couldn't find where it talked about unzipped the tar file and starting the smitty. does that answr your question vennela?
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| vennela |
| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 10:57 am Post subject: |
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That's fine.
Do you have a file called C48J1ML.tar.Z or C48J1ML.tar? Or do you have something else.
You can use uncompress on the .Z file to get the tar
Use tar -xvf C48J1ML.tar
Then use smit or smitty
It will ask for the directory where the software is. Specify the directory you ran the tar -xvf command on the tar and then you will have everything else in the manual. |
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| newbiedude |
| Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:23 am Post subject: |
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grt. thanks a million venney!
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