I have the same problem. But gunzip gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar.gz tar xf gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar
seems to work... Christian. On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Michael Petch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/02/2011 3:49 AM, Misja Alma wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have trouble opening the source snapshot files on the gnubg site. >> When I download a snapshot file and try to untar it I get the following >> error: >> >> misja@quadcore:~/gnubg$ tar xzf >> ../Desktop/gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar.gz >> tar: This does not look like a tar archive >> tar: Skipping to next header >> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors >> >> What could be the problem? My OS is Ubuntu 10.4 >> > I'm at present using a Debian Squeeze distro (Upgraded from Lenny). I did > this: > > wget > http://www.gnubg.org/media/sources/gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar.gz > tar xfz gnubg-source-SNAPSHOT-20110207.tar.gz > > No problem extracting here. How did you download the file? Can you try wget > and see what happens? > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-gnubg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg > _______________________________________________ Bug-gnubg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnubg
