Laughing Man | # 1 | 2008-04-19, 17:54 | Report

I'm using a dual boot system so I'm trying to install KDE on my 2.8+ GB partition. However, I have gotten to the point where I downloaded the two files required to my / partition. But when I use tar jxvf it just says invalid gzip magic. Searching for invalid gzip magic, I couldn't find a helpful post so I resorted to finding tar..

Except there are several references to tar here (no surprise since a tar is just like a zip file I guess). But some threads say use "apt-get -d install tar"

However, doesn't that just erase your system, because that tar contains the maemo system itself? Doing it in my tablet reports that it would remove almost all my programs.

I do know the tablethacker site has tars there, but once I download them, do I just move them to /usr/local/bin? Or some directory like that for use?

I do have bzip2 installed (from a repo).

Laughing Man | # 2 | 2008-04-20, 04:00 | Report

An update, so after some searching using Google on here. I found directions..

So the tar from penguinbait's site is now in /usr/bin (had to transfer it there with sudo).

But when I try..

/usr/bin/tar jxvf KDE(rest of the name of file) it now says.. permission error. -_- (I'm root however thanks to sudo gainroot).

Edit: Found it. Had to chmod+x the /usr/bin/tar.
Edit: Works

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Last edited by Laughing Man; 2008-04-20 at 05:18.