I am really new to linux and am trying to install a printer driver for my lexmark Z23 Printer. I downloaded the driver from the lexmark web site. The file downloaded as a TAR.GZ. I tried the command tar -zxf xxxxTAR.GZ. when I executed it this message appeared.

gzip: stdin: Input/output error
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I have no idea what is going on.

My operating system is Mandrake 9.0.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Maybe the file is corrupted or incompleted, you can check where it stop using tar -zvxf xxxxTAR.GZ

Thanks but that didn't seem to help evertime i try to download again and redoo the comand it comes up with the same error message. What command should I use to undo the tarball.

Well, I tried to download this driver from lexmark:

http://www.downloaddelivery.com/driv...56A87004A3578/$FILE/CJLZ33LE.TAR.GZ

After the download the file seens ok, using the same comand to extract.

What about using cups ?

turn on the server and try going to http://localhost:631/

That is the same file that I had downloaded still same error. Tried using cups that didn't work either not too sure. Any other ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

What happened when you used cups?

Did the self test page work with cups ?

Do you get errors in the messages log or any of the cups logs?

tar -xvzf xxxx.TAR.GZ
http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/

CUPS had the printer there but the self test page didn't seem to do anything maybe I am using it wrong or something, not too sure.

As for the ENSCRIPT utility I downloaded the file on the web site you provided and the same message came up when trying to extract it with tar -xvzf xxxx.TAR.GZ.

gzip: stdin: Input/output error
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Thanks for the help so far I appreciate it.
any other ideas.

Sounds like you need to download the tar utility.
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...mit=Search+...

Alright not sure what this package did but when I tried to install it using this
rpm -i tar-1.13.25-6.2mdk.x86_64.rpm

it came up with this message

error: failed dependencies:
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2()(64bit) is needed by tar-1.13.25-6.2mdk
libc.so.6()(64bit) is needed by tar-1.13.25-6.2mdk
libpthread.so.0()(64bit) is needed by tar-1.13.25-6.2mdk
librt.so.1()(64bit) is needed by tar-1.13.25-6.2mdk
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by tar-1.13.25-6.2mdk
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by tar-1.13.25-6.2mdk
librt.so.1(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit) is needed by tar-1.13.25-6.2mdk

I am assumeing i need to download and install all the packages that said were needed. Am I right to assume that?
Thanks for your help

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/se...mit=Search+...
Try glibc(gnu c library) first.