unpacking GNUcash

[chris@boojiboy.eorbit.net]

I used this command:

$ gzip -cd gnucash-1.4.8.tar.gz | tar xfv -

It worked.

I used this for the solaris package:

$ gzip -cd GNUcash.1.4.2.Sparc.pkg.tar.gz | tar xvf -

And it failed with the following messages:

x GNUcash, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x GNUcash/pkgmap, 42680 bytes, 84 tape blocks
x GNUcash/pkginfo, 145 bytes, 1 tape blocks
x GNUcash/root, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x GNUcash/root/usr, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x GNUcash/root/usr/local, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x GNUcash/root/usr/local/bin, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
x GNUcash/root/usr/local/bin/gnc-prices, 5509 bytes, 11 tape blocks
x GNUcash/root/usr/local/bin/gnucash, 13909588 bytes, 27168 tape blocks

gzip: GNUcash.1.4.2.Sparc.pkg.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated