unarchiving jboss 3.2.5 on AIX 5.2

[louie171]

hi

I have a problem unarchiving jboss-3.2.5.tar.gz on a unix box (aix5).

I unzip it ok : gunzip -d jboss-3.2.5.tar.gz

then untar it : tar -xvf jboss-3.2.5.tar

it unpacks some of it but then stops and gives me a:
tar directory checksum error

Has anyone got any idea's where i am going wrong!

[frankgrimes]

We've seen incompatibilities between AIX's tar and linux tar.
You might want to try creating a zip/jar of the contents on a windows or linux box and then unjarring it on AIX. (JAVA_HOME/bin/jar -xvf jboss-3.2.5.jar)

[louie171]

I found the problem. There is a difference between the tar that has been used to tar jboss. And the native tar program on aix5.2.

I the one used for taring jboss seems to be gnu version.

I downloaded a gnu version for the aix box and used that which worked!