Total Newbie Can't Unpack Tar Ball on AIX

[Julian H. Stacey]

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> From:		Bettina Huber <BHuber at swisher.com> 
> Date:		Mon, 20 May 2013 16:57:15 -0400 
> Message-id:	<OF9B8681CD.506D0965-ON85257B71.00721EC3-85257B71.00731B50 at swisher.com> 

Bettina Huber wrote:
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> <font size=2 face="sans-serif">Been told I now have to use this to develop
> keys and sign a file that gets ftp'd to the bank.  We do not need
> to encrypt the file.  Have read some of the documentation, but understand
> very little of it - I can do basic commands, but nothing fancy, and have
> simply not heard of most of the terminology thrown around there.  I
> figured I'd do it one step at a time and eventually get it.</font>
> <br>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I downloaded 2.0 and it is now in my
> /usr/local/bin directory.  The directory location was a total guess
> - can't find any documentation saying where it should go.  We run
> AIX 6.1.  </font>
> <br>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">File name is:   gnupg-2.0.20.tar-1.bz2</font>
> <br>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Command used to unpack:   tar xvjf
> gnupg-2.0.20.tar.bz2</font>
> <br>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This errored out.  Not with a specific
> error message, but with the "you're not using the command properly"
> type message, below:</font>
> <br>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> tar xvjf gnupg-2.0.20.tar.bz2</font>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Usage: tar -{c|r|t|u|x} [ -BdDEFhilmopRUsvwZ
> ] [ -Number ] [ -f TarFil e ]</font>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">           [
> -b Blocks ] [ -S [ Feet ] | [ Feet at Density ] | [ Blocksb ] ]</font>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">           [
> -L InputList ] [-X ExcludeFile] [ -N Blocks ] [ -C Directory ] File ...</font>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Usage: tar {c|r|t|u|x} [ bBdDEfFhilLXmNopRsSUvwZ[0-9]
> ] ]</font>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">           [
> Blocks ] [ TarFile ] [ InputList ] [ ExcludeFile ]</font>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">           [
> [ Feet ] | [ Feet at Density ] | [ Blocksb ] ] [-C Directory ] File ...</font>
> <br>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This appears to be the correct command,
> because I've seen it in several places in my research.  But I can't
> do anything until I get this worked out.  I was hoping this would
> pretty simple - install (which, frankly, I don't see any info on how to
> do, either), generate keys, export key to bank, voila.  Boy, was I
> wrong.</font>
> <br>
> <br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks a lot.</font>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
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As you are a company call a consultant :-) Or ...

tar command varies from one Unix to another,
j parameter is to specify to unpack bz2,
but j may not be recognised,
to see if j is supported by your tar, type & read 
	man tar
if not supported either install a better tar, or easier:
	bzip2 -d gnupg-2.0.20.tar.bz2

then next problem:
I presume what you downloaded is sources, so you will need to compile
them first.

After you understand man tar do this
	mkdir gnupg-2.0.20
	cd gnupg-2.0.20
	tar xvf ../gnupg-2.0.20.tar

Then as always, one of the file names beginning with a capital
letter 
	ls [A-Z]*
will tell you how to build & install binaries
read
	README
	INSTALL 

Cheers,
Julian
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Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com
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