Solaris tar

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When installing Tomcat I get this error on Solaris 10:

<geshi lang="bash"> $ gunzip apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar.gz && tar xf apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar && mv apache-tomcat-6.0.14 tomcat && /bin/rm apache-tomcat-6.0.14.tar tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file ... </geshi>

The solution is to install and use GNU's tar.