Installing Geronimo

[Bill Brutzman]

I created a 1000 MB directory "lvolb" called "/geronimo". I downloaded geronimo-jetty6-jee5-2.0.2-bin.tar from apache.org.

I would like to install this binary and not have a disaster.

I am not sure if "tar -x file.name" will work.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

>I am not sure if "tar -x file.name" will work.

Well you need:
$ gzcat geronimo-jetty6-jee5-2.0.2-bin.tar.gz | tar -xf -
Or:
$ tar -xf geronimo-jetty6-jee5-2.0.2-bin.tar

[Dennis Handly]

It looks like you followed this up in:
http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1182346

[Bill Brutzman]

I came across this in the JBoss world...

The tar executable that is shipped is POSIX tar, not GNU tar. If you are trying to use POSIX tar to untar JBoss downloads you will encounter checksum errors.

[Dennis Handly]

>I came across this in the JBoss world...

Yes, that sounds exactly like it.

[Bill Brutzman]

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