changeset 7131:efb2aa271256

Prefer use of real (gnu) tar apparently extractall() doesn't strip leading / etc from tarball. Even though the tarball should be in good form, use the safer alternative first.
author John Rouillard <rouilj@ieee.org>
date Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:23:02 -0500
parents 890b55c374a3
children c087ad45bf4d
files website/www/index.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/website/www/index.txt	Mon Jan 23 22:08:33 2023 -0500
+++ b/website/www/index.txt	Mon Jan 30 12:23:02 2023 -0500
@@ -142,7 +142,10 @@
 file).
 
   1. ``python -m pip download roundup``
-  2. ``python -c 'import tarfile, sys; tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extractall();' roundup-2.2.0.tar.gz``
+  2. ``tar -xzvf roundup-2.2.0.tar.gz``
+
+     * if you don't have a tar command, ``python -c 'import tarfile, sys; tarfile.open(sys.argv[1]).extractall();' roundup-2.2.0.tar.gz`` can be used.
+
   3. ``cd roundup-2.2.0``
   4. ``python demo.py``
  

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