[kober]

hello,

i'm trying to untar geronimo on my aix box:

$ tar xvf geronimo-tomcat6-minimal-2.1.3-bin.tar

and what i receive is multiple lines, all looking like this:

x ././@LongLink, 122 bytes, 1 media blocks.

is there any way to untar that archive other then installing gnu tar?

thx in advance for any help

[seth]

In short I know none. Here the link to the gnu tar rpm package for AIX:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeS...aix5.1.ppc.rpm install it with "rpm -i tar-1.14-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm". It can be as easy as this.

Cheers seth

[kober]

i don't have root on that system, so i can't install rpms.

any other ideas anyone?

[seth]

Tell the root-guy to install it or extract it somewhere else where gnutar is installed and after extraction copy it to the AIX host with rcp/scp or something else that can transfer directories recursively.

Cheers seth

[kober]

easier solution is to build gnu tar from sources - that's what i did.

problem's fixed