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#1 2006-11-19 09:33:38
- jmmygoggle
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textpattern-4.0.4.tar.gz This does not look like a tar archive
Just grabbed the latest tar.gz of txp 4.0.4 and it seems to have problems, both in 7-zip gui client and bash via putty on my server those results below. The suggestion here: http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=19381 was not helpful.
The zip seems to work fine but I’m wondering if others are having similar problems with the tar.gz file.
Thoughts?
# tar -xzf textpattern-4.0.4.tar.gz textpattern-4.0.4
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: textpattern-4.0.4: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
# tar -xvzf textpattern-4.0.4.tar.gz textpattern-4.0.4
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: textpattern-4.0.4: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
# gzip -d textpattern-4.0.4.tar.gz
# tar -xf textpattern-4.0.4.tar
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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Re: textpattern-4.0.4.tar.gz This does not look like a tar archive
The file is gzipped twice (known problem), so gunzip it once manually and then use tar -xzf
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#3 2006-11-19 20:59:29
- zem
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Re: textpattern-4.0.4.tar.gz This does not look like a tar archive
It’s not gzipped twice. The server runs mod_deflate, which compresses the already-compressed content. Some browsers have a “feature” that tries to “fix” this, by not unzipping the deflate compression when the file extension ends in “gz”.
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Re: textpattern-4.0.4.tar.gz This does not look like a tar archive
So the downloaded file he’s got there is gzipped twice. Once gzipped by mod_deflate and once because the file on the server was already gzipped (even before mod_deflate).
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#5 2006-11-19 21:43:47
- zem
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Re: textpattern-4.0.4.tar.gz This does not look like a tar archive
True enough. This is what the mysterious trailing ampersand in file download URLs is intended to fix, btw.
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#6 2006-11-20 11:23:47
- jmmygoggle
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Re: textpattern-4.0.4.tar.gz This does not look like a tar archive
Thanks for the fix ruud, and for the details as well zem.
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