Hello, folks…
I have downloaded Bash 4.2.53 from Rocket Software site for installation in a z/OS V2R2 environment.
The download was successful and the file downloaded was “bash-4.2_b0005.160513.tar.gz”.
However, when I upload (in binary mode) to z/OS’s USS and try to “tar” it (tar zxvf bash-4.2_b0005.160513.tar.gz) I receive an error message indicating that the file is not in compressed format. I haven’t found any clue in this forum…
Can you please help me with this issue?
An additional detail: I discovered a link to the theoretically newer file “bash-4.3_b0008.160714.tar.gz” but the same error occurs.
Thank you very much and best regards.
Gustavo Lozano
IBM Brazil
I think that the z flag for tar will use /bin/uncompress, not gunzip; they are different compression schemes. gunzip the downloaded file and then use tar without the z flag, and see if that works.
Hello, folks…
I have downloaded Bash 4.2.53 from Rocket Software site for installation in a z/OS V2R2 environment.
The download was successful and the file downloaded was “bash-4.2_b0005.160513.tar.gz”.
However, when I upload (in binary mode) to z/OS’s USS and try to “tar” it (tar zxvf bash-4.2_b0005.160513.tar.gz) I receive an error message indicating that the file is not in compressed format. I haven’t found any clue in this forum…
Can you please help me with this issue?
An additional detail: I discovered a link to the theoretically newer file “bash-4.3_b0008.160714.tar.gz” but the same error occurs.
Thank you very much and best regards.
Gustavo Lozano
IBM Brazil
Hi Gustavo,
you have to install the Gzip 1.6 package from RocketSoftware first. Gzip 1.6 is in tar-format available. You can ‘untar’ this in USS as usual.
I think .gz stands for gzip format (for z/OS ?, I don’t know 
)
The gzip and tar process for RocketSoftware z/OS Open Source Community Downloads is described in the install guide (rocket_zos_open_source_tools_installation_guide.pdf):
Enter the following command to expand the compressed file: gzip –d filename.tar.gz
Enter the following command to install the Ported Tool: tar –xvfo filename.tar
Hope this helps.
regards
Hermann Buerchler
IBM Switzerland
