-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/7/09 10:02 AM, Holger Lillqvist wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to install Fink on my new mini I get the following error: > > äpplet ~/Downloads$ ls -l > total 32 > -rw-r--r--@ 1 holger staff 16235 6 Jul 21:21 fink-0.9.0-full.tar > äpplet ~/Downloads$ tar -xf fink-0.9.0-full.tar > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers > tar: Read 5995 bytes from fink-0.9.0-full.tar > tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors > > Any suggestions as to what is going wrong here? What obsolescent > headers?
Don't ask me why, but for whatever reason, Safari and SourceForge conspire to ruin the filename. It is actually a tar.bz2 I believe (or is it tar.gz?) -- the filename on the sf.net project is right. Try adding -j or -z to the tar command. - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/ Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFKU30sUu+jZtP2Zf4RAugoAJ9rJ2xbaWMgN8CLxO09w3Dr8S/WRwCfUgo7 q72or7EI4gk/PSDXpfDQqkg= =OMeN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
