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Originally Posted by buzzair
I am using a Mac yes. I downloaded the tar.gz file but on my Mac it comes up only as *.tar No gz
I did not open the contents before dragging to Kindle root. Could my Mac be uncompressing automatically? I'm going to check my settings...
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Yup - your Mac is destroying the special format archive.
Open a terminal and use wget (or curl) to download the archive, don't let the Mac file manager get hold of it.
What is happening:
There is such a thing as a 'tar bomb' which when opened would over-write system programs because it contains full pathnames, starting with the root '/'.
So a lot of "user friendly" consumer software converts any archive like that to a 'safe' version (without the leading '/').
Only thing is -
The jailbreak archive
IS a "tar bomb" - it is
SUPPOSED to be a "tar bomb" - that is critical to how it does its job.