Tar -xvf giving directory checksum errors

[Joe Milici]

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?

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell · Accepted solution]

Joe
.Z extension = zipped

so :-

gunzip first.
Then tar -xvf.


Paula

[S.K. Chan]

Explaination of why you would get dir checksum error.

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

[John Palmer]

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

[Darrell Allen]

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

[Helen French]

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

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi:

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

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,


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

should work fine.

-raj