on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:40:21PM -0400, Andrew Dixon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > I just downloaded the source to ae from the Debian home page and when I > try to untar it I get the following error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tar -zxvf ae_962.orig.tar.gz > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > tar: Child returned status 1 > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > I also tried to just gunzip it but I'm having no luck there either: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gunzip ae_962.orig.tar.gz > > gunzip: ae_962.orig.tar.gz: not in gzip format > > > Anybody know what's going on here? Alternatively does anyone know where > I can find the source for ae?
Try:
$ file ae_962.orig.tar.gz
...which will guess at the file type from various characteristics. You
can also try running 'head' or 'dd' of a few bytes of a file -- output
may or may not be messy, but you can see the raw data yourself.
$ head -10 file
$ dd if=file count=1 bs=1024
Source for ae:
$ man apt-get
$ apt-get source ae
Cheers.
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