Re: SuSE 9.2: does tar work?

From: Whitey Johnson (whitey_at_newmail.net)
Date: 11/17/04


Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:55:48 -0600

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 05:45:21 +0000, Rouben Rostamian muttered
incoherently:

> I have installed SuSE 9.2 Professional on two different machines.
> On both of them /bin/tar does not work properly: it dumps core
> both on creation and extraction of archives.
>
> Is there something wrong with the distributed binary or is it me?
> Please let me know.

Works fine for me on my 9.2 installation. If I `pin tar` it tells me it is
version 1.14. Maybe try uninstalling then reinstalling. Or see if you can
get the rpm package directly from Suse rather than off the cd.



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