Uncompress

[BIS]

Hello,

Just downloaded the latest version of Sophos antivirus to give it a try. It comes as a file called linux.intel.libc6.tar.Z, and according to the website, to uncompress it I would need to use the command 'uncompress'. However, when I do:

uncompress linux.intel.libc6.tar.Z

I get

bash: uncompress: command not found

Logged in as root by the way.

Any ideas?

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

1. Check your PATH
2. or try &quot;compress -d <file>.Z&quot; if uncompress doesn't exist
3. or try &quot;gzip -d <file>.Z&quot; if compress isn't installed

 

[ady2k]

You should use # gunzip linux.intel.libc6.tar.Z
Good luck

 

[RhythmAce]

Unzipping with either of those will still leave you with a .tar file that will also need to be uncompressed. You can do it all is one shot with:

tar -zxvf *.Z

Usually tarballs have the .gz extension but the -z switch should unzip any compessed file that uses some form of the zip algorithm.

 

[BIS]

many thanks everyone - got it.