Fileroller in GNOME 2.5.4

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 09:16, João Grilo wrote:
> I'm using FreeBSD 5.2.1rc2
> 
> Upon installing Fileroller, and trying to open a .tgz archive, it
> refused, claiming I had no gtar found.
> 
> I went to the ports tree and tried to install archivers/gtar, with no
> success (claiming it already made part of the base system).
> 
> Pav asked me to try something, and it worked.
> 
> The solution, would be to create a symbolic link from /usr/bin/tar to
> somewhere within the path but being the destination "gtar".
> 
> In my case, I did this:
> 
> 	ln -s /usr/bin/tar /usr/local/bin/gtar
> 
> (since gtar was supposed to be in /usr/local/bin)
> 
> 
> I'd love to submit a patch to automate your work, but my skills aren't
> enough to do so.

Whoops.  Looks like I misread.  There was a portability patch applied to
the latest release of file-roller that broke it on FreeBSD.  I've
committed a patch for the port, and notified the file-roller authors. 
Thanks for the report.

Joe

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