tar problems ...

orange400 · 06-14-2004, 04:40 AM

I have a tgz file that I can't untar ...

tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolecent base-64 headers
tar: Read 3047 bytes from mulinux-14r0.tgz
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

It's the mulinux base floppy: http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/download.html

I'm just doinf tar xf mulinux* right now, but I've had troubles before. Can anyone help? Thanks!

SBing · 06-14-2004, 04:59 AM

Quote:

http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/download.html
Your browser should download this in binary mode, however you may need to persuade your browser to download in binary. This problem is VERY annoying: please don't tell me.

You sure you followed those notes? I just used wget to download the tarball and it extracted fine.

Quote:

$ md5sum mulinux-14r0.tgz
8ede312c9bf9b599b0716508d8ea7b2b mulinux-14r0.tgz

Hope this helps,

Steve

stickman · 06-14-2004, 11:12 AM

If it's a tgz file, then use zxf as your tar options.