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    From mechanic@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 11 12:19:29 2022
    Something wrong here - I get directory checksum errors when trying
    to untar .tar.xz files downloaded from alpineapp.email - various tar
    options tried with no success.

    Thoughts?

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  • From Dennis Davis@21:1/5 to mechanic@example.net on Tue Oct 11 12:31:51 2022
    In article <lg093tl5iyzj.dlg@example1357.net>,
    mechanic <mechanic@example.net> wrote:
    Something wrong here - I get directory checksum errors when trying
    to untar .tar.xz files downloaded from alpineapp.email - various tar
    options tried with no success.

    Thoughts?

    xzcat alpine-2.26.tar.xz | tar xpf -

    works fine for me.

    xzcat is described here:

    https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-xzcat/

    and you can get the software from:

    https://tukaani.org/xz/

    Alternatively the GNU version of tar can handle .xz files, so:

    gtar xpf alpine-2.26.tar.xz

    should just work. gtar is standard version of tar installed on
    most Linux systems. It's usually available as a port/package on
    BSD-based Unix systems. You may need to install GNU tar on your
    Solaris system. I used to do this many, many years ago when I
    worked on Solaris systems. See:

    https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

    You may find that gtar and xz are already available as pre-compiled
    packages for Solaris. I just wouldn't know where to look :-(
    As usual, Google -- or an alternative search engine -- may be your
    friend here.
    --
    Dennis Davis <dennisdavis@fastmail.fm>

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  • From mechanic@21:1/5 to Dennis Davis on Tue Oct 11 15:12:58 2022
    On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:31:51 -0000 (UTC), Dennis Davis wrote:

    Alternatively the GNU version of tar can handle .xz files, so:

    gtar xpf alpine-2.26.tar.xz

    should just work. gtar is standard version of tar installed on
    most Linux systems. It's usually available as a port/package on
    BSD-based Unix systems. You may need to install GNU tar on your
    Solaris system. I used to do this many, many years ago when I
    worked on Solaris systems. See:

    https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

    Thanks, gnu-tar is the installed package with the tar command - but
    running the gtar command with the expression quoted above works!

    I suspect that won't be the worst problem in getting alpine
    installed :-(

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