slack gzip problems.
This is a really lame problem. I've been using Red Hat and red hat based distros for a while and I finally just got sick of rpm hell, and the bloatyness. So I just installed slack 8.0, and so far I really like it, but I've run into a strange problem.
it sems like gunzip doesn't work for any tarballs i've downloaded from the web. I can still extract the tarballs from kde by double clicking on the file and copying the contents to another directory but I would really, really, really like to do this thru the CLI. when i type: gunzip tarball.tar.gz I get this error: gunzip: gaim-0.58.tar.gz: not in gzip format when i type: tar -xzvf tarball.tar.gz I get this error: gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors I even upgraded gzip to version 1.3.3 and am getting the same problems. What the heck am I doing wrong? thanks in advance |
I've had a problem similar to this. Run the following command:
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My problem was downloading files with my browser and them being only html content, but saved with the correct filename and extensions. Weird. j. |
Thanks jpweston. That was exactly the same problem I was having. If I downloaded via wget everything was fine. However, the version of mozilla (0.9.something) that comes on slack 8.0 had problems saving files. After I upgraded to 1.0 everything was fine.
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wincen,
Yup, that's the distro/browser combo I was having issues with. I'm glad they fixed that with the newer version(s) of Moz. j. |
I might need to try that then. I'm downloading with Galeon and I'm gettting the same problems. :( Thanks guys.
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Download with konqueror, it has built in ftp support and I've never had a corrupted download while using it.
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try:
tar -jxvf <whatever>.tar.bz2 |
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