If you look at the part immediately about --unpack in the manpage (for --install): Installation consists of the following steps: Extract the control files of the new package. If another version of the same package was installed before the new installation, execute prerm script of the old package. Run preinst script, if provided by the package. Unpack the new files, and at the same time back up ...
I received a huge .tar.gz file from a client that contains about 800 mb of image files (when uncompressed.) Our hosting company's ftp is seriously slow, so extracting all the files locally and send...
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I've downloaded mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.6.3.tgz file using windows 7 and kept it on D:\\Amra\\Software\\Developing Soft location. When I right click this .tgz file using Ubuntu and see property it sh...
I'm used to extracting tarballs with a -xfz flag, which handles gzip and bzip2 archives. Recently I've run into a .tar.xz file and I would like to uncompress it in one step using tar, how can I do...
My Ubuntu Jammy, would like upgrade Python but fail. Do you want to continue? [O/n] O (Reading database ... 375728 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../python3.12_3.1...
Here are some free alternatives to the non-free unrar package: The libarchive-tools package provides the bsdtar command that can extract many file formats, including RAR files. To install: sudo apt-get install libarchive-tools Extract RAR files using: bsdtar -xf myfile.rar The unar package provides the unar command for extracting a variety of file formats, including RAR files. To install: sudo ...
Same problem here -- the solution was to not unpack with Ubuntu version 20.04 using unmkinitramfs. I created a bootable USB and booted my machine into Ubuntu 20 -- unmkinitramfs was then able to unpack the initrd.
