Installing OpenSSH

**jcontonio** · March 7th, 2001, 10:43 AM

Has anyone had luck in installing OpenSSH? I tried following the steps at stepwise.com to do so, and I don't seem to have gnutar, and after I run make , it gives me an error saying a file is not found. Am I totally missing something? I am using 4k75...I downloaded the Dev Tools from the ADC...no gnutar.

**endian** · March 7th, 2001, 10:52 AM

I believe gnutar was removed because of GPL issues,and regular tar has a path length limit.. this may be what you're running into. Try copying the gnutar from a Public Beta install.

**jcontonio** · March 7th, 2001, 12:45 PM

how would I do that? Put the public beta install CD in and look through the bin for gnutar?

**NDPTAL85** · March 24th, 2001, 02:41 AM

Download OpenUp from http://www.versiontracker.com it can decompress tar, gar, ...etc files. Its a Cocoa app very easy to use. :O

NDPTAL85

**scruffy** · March 24th, 2001, 02:02 PM

OpenUp contains the gnutar binary, among others.

Once you download OpenUp, if you want to have access to gnutar from the commandline, you could copy Openup.app/Contents/Resources/gnutar to /usr/local/bin, or a similar location. Probably best to do that as root, from the terminal.

**mattyb77** · March 24th, 2001, 08:53 PM

if you're using os x 1.0, stuffit expander will handle tar.gz files just fine. also, i used the tar that came w/ os x to handle the latest version of openssh that I got from one of their mirrors.

**Dr_Stein** · March 25th, 2001, 01:55 AM

Crap.. here's what I've been getting all bloody evening:
--23:50:30-- http://www.publicsource.apple.com:80....5a-3.1.tar.gz
(try: 6) => `OpenSSL-0.9.5a-3.1.tar.gz'
Connecting to http://www.publicsource.apple.com:80...
connect: Operation timed out
Retrying.

--23:51:45-- http://www.publicsource.apple.com:80....5a-3.1.tar.gz
(try: 7) => `OpenSSL-0.9.5a-3.1.tar.gz'
Connecting to http://www.publicsource.apple.com:80...

And it tries and tries and tries.. and fails. *sigh*

**marmoset** · March 25th, 2001, 08:15 AM

Originally posted by endian
I believe gnutar was removed because of GPL issues,and regular tar has a path length limit.. this may be what you're running into. Try copying the gnutar from a Public Beta install.

If you install the developer tools, you get gnutar (and gnumake,
and a bunch of other stuff) by default. No need to resurrect
your PB installation.