[PLUG] Extracting Error Messages

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On 4/3/19 9:37 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> > I have a theme in xfce on my laptop that doesn't exist on my desktop. 
> > I'm trying to copy the theme from the laptop to the desktop. I 
> > compressed the directory Numix, used sftp to copy the .tar.gz file, 
> > and am trying to extract the directory. I get this error message:
> >
> > tar: Numix/gtk-3.0/assets: Cannot open: File exists
> > tar: Numix/gtk-3.20/assets: Cannot open: File exists
> > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> >
> > What's going on here?

I suspect these are directories and for some reason due
to the way you wrote the tar creation command you ended
up putting 2 copies of these directories in the tar file.

You can check this with:
tar tvf <filename> | grep Numix/gtk- | grep assets

You probably get 2 lines for each of the above files.

> 
> Update:
> 
> I'd still like to know what's going on, but in spite of the error 
> messages, the extraction worked, and I was able to copy the theme to 
> /usr/share/themes, and the new theme works.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Dick Steffens
> 
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org