What you're trying to do seems reasonable. You'll have to cut & paste the errors messages or something. We don't have a lot to go on. mh On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 09:01:52PM -0400, mpsingh wrote: > Hi there, > > I am installing "netest" and "pipechar" for measuring the network > performance and bottleneck in virtual environment in cloud Computing. > I am not getting any success in installing these tools > There is file <ncsd-dist-1.2.tgz> > first I download this and then I decompressed the file with " tar > -zxvf file.tgz" but all the files were not decompressed. Then i came > to now about adding another argument "i" > to skip the extra zeros added to the files during compression. Now tar > is extracting files. > > But when I run the installation it stops mid-way and giving the error > of missing files. > > I go the documentation of tools, and they say the following to > download and de-archiving the file <file.tgz> > I tried the following options but no success. > I coluld not understand. Please help me out how to de-archive this > file and install the tools. > > From the documentation : > *After downloading and de-archiving "gzip -d < $ARCH.tgz | tar > -xf -", a directory "$OS.$ARCH/bin", > which contains both netest and pipechar binaries, will be created in > the current directory.* -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE