can't tar xvzf VMWare-Tools, but tar tzvf works fine

[adieball]

Gents

This is driving me crazy.

I have a brand new CentOS 5.4 Installation (installed 3 times) but can't install the VM-Tools.

I copy them to /tmp, but tar xzvf doesn't do anything at all. tar tzvf works fine, md5 checksums are correct.

Am I missing something or should I just assume that I need some holiday?

Thanks

Andre

[continuum]

I guess you need a holiday

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[nirvy]

Hmm thats odd, if you hadn't said the list option works I would have assumed something was possibly up with gunzip....

Have you tried extracting from a non-root account (or visa versa)?

[MaximusBrutus]

I'm using tar -xzf, that works as well

[Texiwill]

Hello,

Can you provide the actual errors?

tar -xzf should work just fine.

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[jaymemaurice]

I have no idea what admin unix experience you have, so sorry if this is way to obvious,

But, you are running the installer after you untar, right?

tar just extracts the files.. does not execute the install file.

You also need to run it as `tar -xzf .tgz` with the dash