Max Reeves said: [snip] > I have a file called gDesklets-0.32.tar.bz2 and I tried to untar it by > tar -xf gDesklets-0.32.tar.bz2, it shows me: > > tar: This does not look like a tar archive That makes sense, because it isn't a tar archive. It is a compressed tar archive. Either uncompress it first, or pass the appropriate option to tar (in this case -j) so it knows what to use to uncompress it first. -- William Hooper