I am trying to follow the instructions here to install Jetty on ubuntu but I am running into a problem when I try to use tar.
cd /usr/local/src
sudo wget http://eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/jetty/stable-9/dist/jetty-distribution-9.1.0.v20131115.tar.gz&r=1
But when I try
sudo tar -xfz etty-distribution-9.1.0.v20131115.tar.gz
I get the error
tar: z: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
What am I doing wrong? (I also tried as root but it did not help)
EDIT
None of the suggested answers is working for me. Below I copy my attempts from the command line. What am I doing wrong?
a@b:/usr/local/src$ ls
download.php?file=%2Fjetty%2F9.1.0.v20131115%2Fdist%2Fjetty-distribution-9.1.0.v20131115.tar.gz
download.php?file=%2Fjetty%2Fstable-9%2Fdist%2Fjetty-distribution-9.1.0.v20131115.tar.gz
a@b:/usr/local/src$ tar -tfz jetty-distribution-9.1.0.v20131115.tar.gz
tar: z: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
a@b:/usr/local/src$ tar -tfz /usr/local/src/jetty-distribution-9.1.0.v20131115.tar.gz
tar: z: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
a@b:/usr/local/src$ sudo tar xfz download.php?file=%2Fjetty%2F9.1.0.v20131115%2Fdist%2Fjetty-distribution-9.1.0.v20131115.tar.gz
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
a@b:/usr/local/src$ sudo tar xfz jetty-distribution-9.1.0.v20131115.tar.gztar (child): jetty-distribution-9.1.0.v20131115.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
a@b:/usr/local/src$ ^C
a@b:/usr/local/src$
Best Answer
The use of the dash and the order of the arguments seems to be the problem:
Edit: The following two commands seem to work for me:
Of course, you'll need to replace
tar tzfwithtar xzf, and may have to addsudo.