58234 - README file. Wrong unix command for unpacking the installer

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect, P3)

Description

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

I cannot unpack the installer file (netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz)
 if I follow the readme file instruction (which is inside the package!).

The readme file says:
	2. Untar the archive:
	gzip -dc netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz | tar -xvf

The right command should be (per sspitzer):
        gzip -dc netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz | tar xvf -

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

nominating for rtm. The read me file must be correct!

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

Yup, there should be a dash at the end of the line since that indicates that the
output from the last command should be used as the input for this command.  We
can leave the dash before the tar options too to remain consistent with the gzip
command.

gzip -dc netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz | tar -xvf -

However, if we are going to change this anyway, we may as well replace this line
with the combined command:

tar -zxvf netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz

where the additional 'z' option will gunzip the tarball before untarring it.

Comment 3

[rudman]

Attachment: New read me file with revised Unix install instructions

Comment 4

[rudman]

Marking invalid here, as Mozilla has no read me file. Moving to Bugscape.

Comment 5

[rudman]

cf. Bugscape bug 3102.

Comment 6

[Grace Bush]

verified invalid