Hi,

I am facing problem in opening a tar file in Fedora 7.
Usually we are opening a .tar.gz file using this command:

tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz.

But i am getting these error while opening a VPNServer.tar.gz package:
[root@localhost ~]# tar -xvzf /root/Desktop/VPNServer.tgz

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
etc/openvpn/keys/
etc/openvpn/keys/VPN-server.crt
etc/openvpn/keys/VPN-server.key
etc/openvpn/keys/dh384.pem
etc/openvpn/keys/ca.crt
etc/openvpn/VPNServer.conf
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

I have also tried one command:
gunzip VPNServer.tgz

I am getting unexpected end of file.

Ravi

This might be a Slackware .tgz file instead of a .tar.gz.

I thought you could extract Slackware tgz packages in the same manner as tar.gz files?

It could be that the file is corrupt and maybe a new download may help.

Truth to tell, I don't know. I've had .tgz files that unpacked without problems; others that didn't. I know of at least one archiving utility that allows the user to specify which extension to use (.tgz or .tar.gz).

I don't know enough about Slackware to know if there are archiving scripts that do something special such that the .tgz is not compatible with .tar.gz. I suggested it as a possibility.

There shouldn't be any diff, you can call a file anything you like in Linux, as long as you use it correctly. The times I've seen that error, it turned out that the file was not in fact gzipped, in spite of it's name...