installing version 1.4.1
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Tim Hoar wrote:
Hello people, me again ... Just an FYI this time, I think: 0[209]1 sunray1:/contrib > gtar zxf R-1.4.1.tgz tar: R-1.4.1/date-stamp: Could not create file: Permission denied gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors 2[210]1 sunray1:/contrib > gtar zxvf R-1.4.1.tgz "R-1.4.1/date-stamp" R-1.4.1/date-stamp gtar: R-1.4.1/date-stamp: Could not create file: Permission denied gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Is there some problem with R-1.4.1/date-stamp ?
It is read-only. What version of `gtar' is this, and have you already extracted in R-1.4.1 (yes in the case of your second attempt)? I suspect an older version of GNU tar is in use. I can't imagine this is a common problem, or we would have met it before now.
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