>shell/iX> tar -xpf jakarta-ant-1.5.1.tar
>tar: blocksize = 20
>tar: jakarta-ant-1.5.1/bin/ant: cannot set uid/gid: Invalid argument

The above type of error message (warning) should go away by
adding -o to the tar option, to tar will not attempt to chown
to the uid/gid ownership info in the tar file. All files will
be owned by the user issuing the tar command.

>././@LongLink: Unknown file type field value `L'
>ttar: cannot create file "././@LongLink": No such file or directory
>tar: checksum error on tape (got 0, expected 2690)

This one looks like some tar format issue. You might be able to
check a tar -tvf to find more details about the "strange" filename.
Maybe it can be excluded from the unpacking somehow. (if nothing
else helps, maybe pax can). Another option might be trying a .zip
format download instead of tar.gz

Lars.

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