At 7:55 PM -0700 2000-01-03, Kenny Schachat wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to install MySQL for the first time and have some very
>basic, beginner questions. The system is a Sparc 4 running SunOS
>5.5 generic. I have chosen the SUN SunOS4 [sunos4.1.4 sparc sun]
>binary.
>
>The problem I am having at the moment is a checksum error at the end
>of running: gunzip < mysql-3.22.27-sun-sunos4.1.4-sparc.tar.gz | tar
>xvf -
>
>Everything seems to be unpacking fine until the end when there is the error:
>"tar: directory checksum error". According to the docs there is a
>problem with the Solaris tar and long file names that can give this
>error. Is that also the case with SunOS? If there is a problem
>with tar and I need to use
Yes.
>gtar, what would be the procedure for getting gtar installed and
>once it's installed would the unpacking look like:
>
>gunzip < mysql-3.22.27-sun-sunos4.1.4-sparc.tar.gz | gtar xvf -
Yes. Or, since gtar can uncompress for itself, you can do this:
gtar zxvf mysql-3.22.27-sun-sunos4.1.4-sparc.tar.gz
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
