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ThreepWood

#! Member

Registered: 2009-02-12

Posts: 68

[SOLVED] Can't extract tar.gz containing symlinks

I tried to extract a release build of Slicer ( found here), but i can't because of symbolic links in the tar file.

My command looks like:

tar -xvvzf Slicer3-3.4.2-2010-01-07-linux-x86.tar.gz

Any medicine for this illness?

Last edited by ThreepWood (2010-02-08 07:36:01)

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anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,418

Re: [SOLVED] Can't extract tar.gz containing symlinks

Can you extract it using File-Roller?

Also you're not extracting it to a FAT32 or NTFS partition right?

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ThreepWood

#! Member

Registered: 2009-02-12

Posts: 68

Re: [SOLVED] Can't extract tar.gz containing symlinks

Anonymous, You are really clever! indeed, it is a FAT drive.
I'm really feeling so noob right now...
>> Changing to solved

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