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Title: Cognos 8.3 SP2 Install Help
Post by: sasdev on 30 Apr 2009 09:24:43 AM
The 8.3 SP2 update comes with a TAR file and GZ file formats. Does anyone have advice on how to get these properly executed and applied? I can't find any step by step documentation with the updates. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Title: Re: Cognos 8.3 SP2 Install Help
Post by: david.stachon on 01 May 2009 04:35:30 AM
yeah, you'll need to install a de-zipper...

my personal favourite is 7zip. (it's free, and doesn't pollute your machine)

download it here:

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html (http://www.7-zip.org/download.html)

after installing, just right click the archive files. (you'll need to run it twice)
Title: Re: Cognos 8.3 SP2 Install Help
Post by: sasdev on 08 May 2009 01:02:10 PM
Hi David,

7-zip worked perfectly! I didn't realize that the TAR and GZ files were just compressed files. After unzipping and decompressing with 7-zip there was an executable to run the update. Thanks again!

Traci