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PixInsight => Bug Reports => Topic started by: dswtan on 2020 January 12 18:24:12

Title: Minor problem in Linux installation notes
Post by: dswtan on 2020 January 12 18:24:12

Very minor, but confuses me so may confuse others.

In the Linux installation notes at https://pixinsight.com/dist/browser.php, it says "The FreeBSD and Linux distribution packages are gzipped tar archives (tar.gz)".

This is not true at least for the current Linux distro, which downloads as a *tar.xz file, not a *tar.gz. Then when you follow the example command there, tar -xzf, it doesn't work, since that is for gz not xz files.

I believe tar -xf or -xvf (more reassuring that it is working) will work, as it did for me just now.

Title: Re: Minor problem in Linux installation notes
Post by: starhopper on 2020 January 14 07:58:51

Has confused me too.
Thomas

Title: Re: Minor problem in Linux installation notes
Post by: Juan Conejero on 2020 January 14 12:00:11

Thank you for pointing out this outdated information. I have just fixed it, along with other minor issues; let me know if it looks correct now.

Title: Re: Minor problem in Linux installation notes
Post by: dswtan on 2020 January 20 11:54:59

Looks good, thanks Juan!