How to uncompress the Android source package

dotty · Published in 2017-8-16 04:15:41

Hi, I downloaded the android source files from the download links provided. The files seem to be split tar.gz files. But they are named H5-v1.1.tar.gzaa, H5-v1.1.tar.gzab, H5-v1.1.tar.gzac, etc etc.
How do I go about uncompressing the tarball?

SatisfyingSin · Published in 2017-8-16 05:51:00

Did you try using 'cat' to merge the files back together into 'H5-v1.1.tar.gz'?

dotty · Published in 2017-8-18 01:37:02

Yup, I get the error message that the output file is the same as the input file. Or something similar

dotty · Published in 2017-8-20 21:08:58

Edited by dotty at 2017-8-20 21:10

Sorted it out. If anyone else is having the same issue, join all parts into a single file:

$ cat * > H5-v1.1.tar.gz

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Then extract the tar.gz using the following:

$ tar -xvf H5-v1.1.tar.gz

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DO NOT use the -z parameter as this is somehow not in gzip format

SatisfyingSin · Published in 2017-8-22 06:36:16

dotty replied at 2017-8-20 21:08
Sorted it out. If anyone else is having the same issue, join all parts into a single file:

Glad you got it working, I should have gave the full command, my bad.