[Ham-Mac] WSJT-X

[Stephen Prior]

As I mentioned in a previous email, I'm past the first hurdle in terminal,
due to me missing an all-important / at the end of a line.  However, now I
cannot get the application to run at all.  Every time it tries to open it
reports an error.  This is where, despite me being a Mac user for the past
8 years I run into areas of limited understanding.  Should I uninstall the
app (and if so, how?) and try again?  At the moment I'm having to run
windows 7 in a virtual machine in order to use WSJT-X and I'd much rather
not have to!

Any advice would be much appreciated,

thanks and 73,

Stephen G4SJP


On 27 August 2013 18:50, David Ferrington, M0XDF <M0XDF at alphadene.co.uk>wrote:

> He said he was using the 'z' option (you can see it listed in his args).
> The 'v' just causes tar to be verbose about it's extraction.
> however, normal unit tar does not unzip as well as extract, only GNU tar
> does that. I do note that tar on OSX lists 'z' as an option to compress,
> therefore I would have expected it to decompress on extraction.
>
> I just took the unzipped copy from the site.
> 73 de David, M0XDF
> --
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> they know they shall never sit in. -Greek proverb
>
> On 27 Aug 2013, at 18:18, Richard Meserve wrote:
>
> > Steven,
> >
> > With regard to the error:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> sudo tar -xzf hamlib.tar.gz
> >>
> >> I get:
> >>
> >> tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open 'hamlib.tar.gz'
> >>
> >
> >
> > You are missing the "z" option to tar, which specifies to use gzip
> decompression.  This will work:
> >
> > sudo tar -zxvf hamlib.tar.gz
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rich
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