topic Re: Tar -xvf giving directory checksum errors in Operating System - HP-UX

Tar -xvf giving directory checksum errors

Joe Milici — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:04:07 GMT

I am trying to install JDK and JRE. The instructions state to uncompress and untar
jre.tar.Z but I keep getting the directory checksum error.
Any Suggestions?

Re: Tar -xvf giving directory checksum errors

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:18:25 GMT

Joe
.Z extension = zipped

so :-

gunzip first.
Then tar -xvf.

Paula

Re: Tar -xvf giving directory checksum errors

S.K. Chan — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:29:52 GMT

Explaination of why you would get dir checksum error.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x4c87663ce855d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Re: Tar -xvf giving directory checksum errors

John Palmer — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:30:26 GMT

Hi Joe,

You can do it all in one step with:

gzcat jre.tar | tar -xvf -
or
gunzip -c jre.tar | tar -xvf -

Regards,
John

Re: Tar -xvf giving directory checksum errors

Darrell Allen — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:33:40 GMT

Hi Joe,

Normally you'd use:
uncompress jre.tar (or jre.tar.Z)
tar xvf jre.tar

If space is a concern you can use inline de-compression piped to tar:

uncompress -c jre.tar | tar xvf -

I'd first verify the contents of the tar file with tvf.

Darrell

Re: Tar -xvf giving directory checksum errors

Helen French — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:04:59 GMT

Hi Joe,

You need to 'gunzip' it first and then untar. Try this for all latest patches and downloads on Java:

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/index.html

HTH,
Shiju

Re: Tar -xvf giving directory checksum errors

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:06:17 GMT

Hi:

You probably need to run uncompress but let's not overlook the obvious. You did do a binary download/transfer of the file?

Re: Tar -xvf giving directory checksum errors

Roger Baptiste — Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:11:32 GMT

hi,

/usr/bin/uncompress jre.tar.Z
tar xvf jre.tar

should work fine.

-raj