Tar file

[Kyle D. Harris]

I just downloaded a tar file. (jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29.tar.gz) In order to put this into effect, I'm not sure what to do?...

I did "tar -zxf jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29.tar.gz"

That command made a jakarta-tomcat-4.1.29 directory with a bunch of sub directories..

Now what?

[Kyle D. Harris]

I was able to FTP just fine and i noticed after i did that tar command above, now i'm unable to ftp out somewhere... Can somebody please help!?

[Kyle D. Harris]

Disregard the FTP problem. It works fine now. Must of been a network thing. I'm still lost on the tar.gz file above. Weather it's in effect and functioning with what i did or if there are more steps i must take? Thanks.

[Olivier Drouin]

I normally work with GNU tar (gtar).

gtar -xzvf file.tgz
or
gtar -xzf file.tgz (less debug)

should work just fine. Maybe the file as such is broken ?

[Olivier Drouin]

on linux 'tar' should be a symlink to 'gtar' anyway.

[Kyle D. Harris]

Hey, I'm not saying it's broke. I just don't know how to tell if it's in affect ...

[Ratzie · Accepted solution]

You did not install the app yet, you just uncompressed and untarred the file.

There should be a readme file under the main directory of jakarta-tomcat, this will tell you how to install the file.
Probably a install.sh script.

[Kyle D. Harris]

LHradowy - Thanks. I see the README file now.

It talks about Nightly Builds of Tomcat 4.1 and Release Builds of Tomcat 4.1 ... What is the difference and which would i want? Never heard of either of them. Also Binary or Source? Appreciate your help.

[Olivier Drouin]

oh ok, I see ...

normally you can d/l the binary tomcat (it is java anyway so it doesnt matter much if you compile yourself) and you should d/l the release build of tomcat if you plan to use it seriously. ( get the latest sun JVM too ).

The file README.txt wont tell you much how to use it. read RUNNING.txt at the same place.

More resources can be found @ jakarta.apache.org.

Good luck, it is not the simplest piece of software out there. For example: a simple jvm upgrade can easily break a lot of things.

Oli