[wellylug] install gimpp

[brian boutel]

The tar archive is compressed. That's what the .gz means. (Sometimes you 
see .tgz instaed of .tar.gz - same thing.)

The easiest way to deal with this is to say
tar xzvf gimp-print-4.2.5.tar.gz

The z option tells tar to uncompress the file.

--brian

Rose McGillicuddy wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I decided to try and download gimp as the package manager said I had 
> incomplete files.  Did the download and attempted to install and got the 
> following.  Can antone please explain what it means?
> Thanks
> Rose
> 
> 
> [rose at funtime Downloads]$ tar -xvf gimp-print-4.2.5.tar.gz
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> 
> 
> 
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